“There is no amount of money I can set to keep the world safe from you,” Bourgeois told the burly defendant.
Prosecutors said the victim had left her Dodge Caravan unlocked about 6:15 a.m. while she went into a gas station in the 10700 block of Indianapolis Boulevard in Hammond to pay for gas, coffee and cigarettes. Alex climbed into the backseat of the vehicle and hid until the woman returned and drove away, according to prosecutors.
“As the victim was driving, she noticed movement in the rear of her vehicle,” Assistant State’s Attorney Joell Zahr said.
Alex, wearing a black ski mask, varsity-style jacket and a Chicago Bulls hooded sweatshirt, climbed into the seat directly behind her and ordered her to keep driving,” Zahr said. He also threatened to stab and kill her if she ignored his commands or “made any sudden movements,” she said.
A parolee hid in a woman’s van as she paid for gas at a northwest Indiana filling station last month, forced her to drive into Chicago and sexually assaulted and robbed her.
Deverick Alex, 22, was charged with aggravated kidnapping, robbery and aggravated criminal sexual assault in the March 22 attack on the 26-year-old mother who was on her way to work in Evergreen Park
Alex raped the victim after directing her to drive into an alley in the 9500 block of South Colfax Avenue on Chicago’s South Side. During the attack the woman begged Alex not to hurt her because she wanted to make it home to her son.
He then forced her to drive to a nearby gas station and withdraw $140 in cash. Alex found the woman’s address on her driver’s license and threatened to kill her and her son if she ever told anyone what happened.
After the woman withdrew the money, Alex used her cell phone to call two acquaintances, then got out of the van near 89th Street and Lowe Avenue and fled with her phone, money and a gold ring. The woman immediately called police and was taken to St. Bernard Hospital.
Zahr said surveillance video from the gas station in Hammond showed Alex inside the store shortly before the kidnapping dressed in the same clothing described by the victim. Phone records confirmed the numbers dialed from the woman’s cell phone matched acquaintances of Alex. One of those witnesses identified Alex “by name” as the person who called her.
Alex also made admissions to a second witness.
Court records show an arrest warrant was issued for Alex earlier this week and that he turned himself in to police at the Calumet District station Tuesday.
At the time of the attack, Alex was on parole for a 2007 carjacking and armed robbery conviction for which he was sentenced to 8 years in prison, records show. Alex was 16 years old when he pointed a gun at a motorist and took his wallet and vehicle, telling the victim he would kill him if he told anyone.
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