CHICAGO — A 24-year-old woman was sexually assaulted and then locked inside a car trunk Wednesday afternoon on the Far South Side, police said.
About 12:20 p.m. Wednesday, the woman was walking to her car when a man approached her near East 98th Street and South Indiana Avenue, according to a police statement.
The man had a knife, forced the woman into her car and had her drive to an alley a short distance away where he sexually assaulted her, police said.
The man then locked the woman inside the trunk of her car and fled.
The assault victim is a Chicago State University student who was loading books into her car at the time, according to an ABC7 report. She also reportedly is four months pregnant.
Police said the woman's attacker is a black man with a dark complexion, 18 to 22 years old, between 5-feet-10 and 6-feet-2, and weighing 150 to 200 pounds. He was wearing a navy blue windbreaker jacket, a plaid button-up shirt and gray jeans, police said.
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