Woman Wakes up in Car to Find Black Raping her at Gunpoint

Chicago CBS Local
January 2, 2014

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Dwayne Towns snuck into her car while she was sleeping and drove it to the other side of town, where he then raped her at gunpoint.

A South Side man has been charged with raping a woman at gunpoint as she slept in a car in the Pullman neighborhood in 2011.

Dwayne Towns, 51, faces felony counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault with a firearm and kidnapping in connection with the Sept. 4, 2011 attack, according to police.

According to a community alert issued a week after the attack, a 21-year-old woman was sleeping in a relative’s vehicle in a parking lot in the 11600 block of South Halsted Street about 4:15 a.m.

A man got into the driver’s seat and drove to the 12000 block of South Morgan, where he sexually assaulted her at gunpoint.

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