Christine Brown was a Cook County Deputy Sheriff. In the early morning hours of May 27, she was dressed in uniform and leaving her home to go to work at the Criminal Courts Building. She did not have a gun. As she was getting into her car, a man approached her on foot, put a gun to her side, and demanded that she move over. He then got into the driver’s seat and drove away with her. The man first drove to a building which he said was the home of his grandparents, then drove around the area near the home of Ms. Brown’s 45-yearold sister-in-law, Pharistine Haynes.
The man saw a van parked in front of this building and would not go in, but instead drove Ms. Brown back to her own building. Again changing his mind, he did not allow her to go into her home, but drove back to the building in which Ms. Haynes lived. Threatening to blow her brains out, the man forced Ms. Brown at gunpoint into the Haynes’ apartment. He ransacked the apartment, taking clothing, jewelry and money. In the apartment, along with Ms. Haynes, were her 53-year-old cousin Cleveland White, and Ms. Haynes’ three-year-old granddaughter. The man woke the sleeping Mr. White, and tied him in the bed with a telephone cord. He then forced the two women into the bedroom and made them remove their clothing. For some thirty minutes he then, at gunpoint, raped Ms. Brown, forced both women to perform oral sex on him, and forced Ms. Haynes to perform oral sex on the helpless Cleveland White.
At the end of this ordeal, both women, still naked, were forced at gunpoint by the man to leave the house. Ms. Brown was forced back into her automobile, but Ms. Haynes was able to escape. The man then drove off with Ms. Brown, taking her to a point east of an expressway, where he again raped her. At last, the man released her, driving off in her automobile.