Kathy Stewart, wtop.com
WASHINGTON — Four suspects are still on the loose after police say they brutally gang raped a woman near the Greenbelt Metro Station on Saturday.
“In the early morning hours of Saturday, December 17, the Greenbelt Police Department received a call for a sexual assault that occurred in the 6000 block of Cherrywood Lane near the intersection of Greenbelt Metro Drive,” says Greenbelt Police Captain Thomas Kemp.
Kemp says the 24-year-old victim had gotten off a train and was walking from the Greenbelt station when at least four men dragged her into woods where they brutally and repeatedly raped her for at least an hour.
After the attack, the woman made her way back to Cherrywood Lane where she was helped by some joggers. They called police, but the suspects got away.
The victim was taken to Prince George’s Hospital Center with serious but non-life threatening injuries, including severe facial trauma.
Kemp describes the suspects as black men in their late teens or early 20’s, with slim to medium builds, one of which had his hair in cornrows.
Metro riders at the station are troubled by what’s happened.
“It’s horrible,” says Vivian Harvin, who is hoping police catch the suspects.
Another rider, Timothy Wiggins, says, “It makes it so you have to watch your back.”
And Jolyssa Morris, from Hyattsville, says she’s going to do things differently in light of what happened, “I’m just going to have to walk in a group and watch out for myself,” she says.
Anyone with information is asked to call Greenbelt police at (240) 542-2133.
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