Woman reports assault in Eastern Avenue house

10/10/2001

A 24-year-old North Toledo woman reported to police that she was raped yesterday by a man with a handgun in a house in the 300 block of Eastern Avenue.

The woman was taking her brother's girlfriend home when they stopped at the house about 2:30 a.m., police said.

While inside, the man forced the victim into a bedroom with the handgun, threatened to hit her with a bottle, forced her to take off her clothes, and sexually assaulted her, police said.