Nov 24, 2009 5:52 am US/Central
3 Kidnapped, Beaten, Robbed In Englewood
Police: Incident May Have Been Drug-Related
CHICAGO (CBS) ―
Two men and a woman survived a horrible ordeal in the Englewood neighborhood, and now they're talking about it.
Police say a group of six men bound, beat up and robbed the victims, after taking them to an abandoned house Monday night.
The incident began about 8:30 p.m. at an unidentified address when the three victims -- a 20-year-old woman, a 42-year-old man and 19-year-old man -- were inside a 1998 Mercedes sport-utility vehicle. The group forced them from the SUV at gunpoint and into a van with a female suspect inside it, according to police.
The suspects drove about a half of block away to an abandoned house at 6624 S. Peoria St. where the three were bound, beaten and robbed of all of their personal belongings. After the suspects then left the home, except for one man who was a "guard,'' the two male victims were able to kick a board out of a window and flee through it, according to police.
The "guard" gave chase and caught the 42-year-old man who he beat up again somewhere outside, while the other man escaped.
The 42-year-old eventually escaped a second time and grabbed onto a passing car and was dragged down the street. A police News Affairs release said the older man who was battered was taken to Holy Cross Hospital in fair condition.
No one else was hospitalized and the woman was found at the home where she was not able to escape.
The suspects were still on the loose early Tuesday morning, and police said the victims were not giving very much information to investigators.
While police were investigating whether the incident was narcotics-related, a motive had not been determined as of 3:30 a.m.
The Sun-Times Media Wire contributed to this report.
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