Crime & Safety
Two Men Lured to Bloody Robbery by Sex Texts but Only One Escapes with His Life
The men came to the south suburbs to meet a woman. Instead, they were beaten and put into the trunks of cars. One managed to escape.
Two men lured to the south suburbs for sex instead found themselves in a life-or-death struggle with violent robbers. One escaped with his life. The other was found dead.
The men were lured separately by text messages and believed they were coming to a house at 144th Street and University Avenue in Dolton on Wednesday to meet a woman for sex. When the men arrived, they were set upon by at least two attackers who beat and robbed them, Dolton police told CBS Chicago, then bound them and put them into the trunks of separate cars.
One man managed to spring the emergency latch and flee. He ran into a store in Riverdale, bloody and bound in duct tape, and screamed: “Help me! Help me! People are trying to kidnap me!”
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The other man’s body was found in a burning car in Chicago. He was shot in the head.
“That is brazen, and it’s a serious crime,” Dolton Police Cmdr. Darryl Hope told CBS Chicago.
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The murderous attackers remain at large.
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