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Yay more violent crime in the metro!! (warning the article was written poorly)
Simply amazing, I don't know why people would even consider answering a hooker's "in call" ad on craigslist. You're gonna get robbed/shot/stabbed/killed.
Desire for erotic encounter turns bloody for customer
A Coon Rapids man got a violent surprise when he tried to cancel a Craigslist erotic call girl service that he requested.
A young woman responded to his house an hour after he called. Jeff VanDyke said he wanted to cancel. She looked sideways, and a man came to the storm door. When VanDyke wouldn't open it, the man shot him through the door in the jaw, court charges said.
The alleged gunman, Brock A. Franklin, 22, was charged Monday in Anoka County District Court with abetting attempted first-degree murder. Charges against the woman are still possible, said a Sheriff's Office spokesman.
According to the charges:
VanDyke, 42, blacked out after being shot about 6 a.m. on Feb. 15 but later called police. He told them he called a number he found in a Craigslist erotic services advertisement on the Internet about 5 a.m. that day. Then he had second thoughts and called back to cancel. Whoever answered said the service was "almost there." VanDyke was shot seconds after she arrived at his home in the 11100 block of Drake Street NW.
Police traced VanDyke's cell phone calls to Franklin, whom VanDyke picked out of a photo lineup as a likely suspect.
Franklin told police that two other men, who planned to rob VanDyke, went with him and the call girl to VanDyke's house. He claimed his job was to keep watch on the street. He said he heard a "noise" and then the girl came to him with blood on her. They left the two men behind, he said.
The Sheriff's Office wouldn't say whether authorities think anyone else was involved but said more charges are possible.
In October, Katherine Ann Olson was killed after responding to a Craigslist ad for a baby sitter in Savage in October. A young man faces murder charges in that case.
The gunman:
http://stmedia.startribune.com/image...klin040908.jpg
A Coon Rapids man got a violent surprise when he tried to cancel a Craigslist erotic call girl service that he requested.
A young woman responded to his house an hour after he called. Jeff VanDyke said he wanted to cancel. She looked sideways, and a man came to the storm door. When VanDyke wouldn't open it, the man shot him through the door in the jaw, court charges said.
The alleged gunman, Brock A. Franklin, 22, was charged Monday in Anoka County District Court with abetting attempted first-degree murder. Charges against the woman are still possible, said a Sheriff's Office spokesman.
According to the charges:
VanDyke, 42, blacked out after being shot about 6 a.m. on Feb. 15 but later called police. He told them he called a number he found in a Craigslist erotic services advertisement on the Internet about 5 a.m. that day. Then he had second thoughts and called back to cancel. Whoever answered said the service was "almost there." VanDyke was shot seconds after she arrived at his home in the 11100 block of Drake Street NW.
Police traced VanDyke's cell phone calls to Franklin, whom VanDyke picked out of a photo lineup as a likely suspect.
Franklin told police that two other men, who planned to rob VanDyke, went with him and the call girl to VanDyke's house. He claimed his job was to keep watch on the street. He said he heard a "noise" and then the girl came to him with blood on her. They left the two men behind, he said.
The Sheriff's Office wouldn't say whether authorities think anyone else was involved but said more charges are possible.
In October, Katherine Ann Olson was killed after responding to a Craigslist ad for a baby sitter in Savage in October. A young man faces murder charges in that case.
The gunman:
http://stmedia.startribune.com/image...klin040908.jpg
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