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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Mary Norkol

Man killed in Bridgeport wreck after crime spree involving sexual assault, robbing 5 people at knifepoint

The South Loop apartment building where a man in his 20s started a crime spree that ended with his death in a fatal car crash (Violet Miller/Sun-Times)

A one-man crime spree that began as a sexual assault in the common area of a South Loop apartment building continued with several armed robberies, kidnappings and a stabbing before ending with the suspect dying in a car crash in Bridgeport early Friday.

The suspect, who has not been identified, is a man in his 20s who was ejected from a vehicle when it crashed and flipped over shortly after 3 a.m. in the 3000 block of South Pitney Court, according to Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Merritt.

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