Youngstown woman reports rape

YOUNGSTOWN — City police are investigating the reported rape of a 27-year-old North Side woman.

The woman told police she accepted a ride from an acquaintance she knows only by a first name at 1:42 a.m. today on Belmont Avenue. The man stopped somewhere along Parker Street on the East Side, pulled a knife and forced the woman to have sexual intercourse.

The woman told police the man dropped her off at a nearby intersection and made her walk, threatening to shoot her if she looked back in his direction. A resident on Woodside Avenue eventually offered the woman help and called 911.