Tuesday April 29th, 2025 2:33PM

Police getting tips about racial rape in Riverdale

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RIVERDALE - A woman who says she was kidnapped and sexually assaulted by two men on New Year&#39;s Day was looking at a photo police line-up Monday night to see if she could identify her attackers. <br> <br> Police in the Atlanta suburb of Riverdale have received hundreds of telephone tips in the case since releasing composite sketches of the two suspects. <br> <br> The victim, who is white, says the two men attacked her because her boyfriend is black. She says they knew her boyfriend&#39;s name and called her racist names during the assault. <br> <br> The 36-year-old woman said she was stopped at a traffic light about 8:30 a.m. near Southern Regional Medical Center when two white men in a pickup truck pulled up behind her. <br> <br> Riverdale police detective Brad Guest says one man jumped into her vehicle, held a sharp object to her throat and ordered her to drive. Guest says the attack was a ``pure hate crime.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> The woman, who recently moved to metro Atlanta from Florida, said she drove for hours with the pickup following before being ordered to drive onto a dirt road. Then she was pulled from her vehicle by her hair and raped.
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