MID-WILSHIRE : Two Sought in Assaults on 5 Women in Break-In

Authorities are seeking two suspected rapists who brutally assaulted five women over the weekend in a Mid-Wilshire home, and then fled in two of the victims’ cars.

The attack occurred about 10 p.m. Sunday in the 800 block of South Norton Avenue, said Los Angeles police Officer Rigo Romero. Televised news broadcasts initially reported that the suspects had followed two of the women home from a shopping mall, but detectives said Tuesday there is no evidence that that was the case.

The two men, armed with handguns, apparently broke into the house and found four of the five victims inside, detectives said. The men allegedly raped and beat the four women, and then attacked the fifth when she came home unexpectedly.

The attackers fled in two of the women’s cars, one of which was recovered Tuesday in Los Angeles, Romero said. The women were treated and released from a hospital, he said.

Police said one suspect is in his late teens; the other is in his early 20s. The younger man was last seen wearing a black jacket with red and yellow stripes and black pants; the other man wore black pants and a black Los Angeles Raiders jacket, Romero said.

The stolen cars that has yet to be recovered is a brown, two-door 1972 Cutlass Supreme, license 1JUE662.