Police getting tips about racial rape in Riverdale

RIVERDALE - Police in the Atlanta suburb of Riverdale say they have received nearly 200 telephone tips as they look for two suspects in the New Year&#39;s Day rape and torture of a white woman who was dating a black man. <br> <br> The tips have come in after police released composite sketches of the two suspects. <br> <br> The 36-year-old woman said she ws 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 -- quote -- ``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. <br> <br> She told police her attackers mentioned the man she was dating by name, and shouted racial slurs as they assaulted her repeatedly. <br>

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