The Tribune

By SANCHESKA BROWN

Tribune Staff Reporter

sbrown@tribunemedia.net

POLICE are on the hunt for three men accused of sexually assaulting three women in two separate incidents early on Sunday and Monday morning.

In the first incident, which occurred shortly before 7am on Sunday, police said the victim was walking with a male friend on Market Street, when two men in a silver hatchback, armed with handguns, robbed them of cash and a cell phone.

After the robbery, the men kidnapped the woman and they both raped her before letting her go, police reported.

In the second incident, shortly after 3.30am on Monday a man armed with a handgun forced his way into a home on Young Street, where he raped two women occupants before fleeing on foot, police reported.

Anyone with information on any of these sexual assaults is asked to contact police at 911 or 919, the Central Detective Unit at 502-9991 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 328-TIPS.

Two men are recovering in hospital after they were shot during two separate armed robberies on Sunday.

In the first incident, police said the victim was walking on Vessey Street around 1am with a woman friend, when a man armed with a handgun robbed him of cash and shot him in his side before fleeing on foot. The victim went home, according to police, and reported the matter to police later in the day. He was taken to hospital where he is listed in stable condition.

In the second incident, police said a man was at a residence on Hanna Road around noon, when a man with a handgun robbed him and shot him in his upper thigh before fleeing the area on foot. He was taken to hospital where he is also listed in stable condition.

Investigations continue.