Shreveport Police Department

PO Box P • Shreveport, LA 71161 • 318/673-6932 • Fax: 318/673-6933

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Date: May 17, 2002

Contact: Kacee Hargrave, Public Information Officer

318/673-6932

Police seek man for aggravated rape

(Photo of Chandler in Media Box)

Shreveport detectives are looking for a man who entered a woman’s residence and brutally raped her in southeast Shreveport.

Prentiss Chandler, 31, of Shreveport is wanted for aggravated rape in connection with an incident that occurred about 8:40 p.m. last night.

According to the victim, the suspect asked to use the 25-year-old woman’s phone. When she let him, he forced his way into her residence and attacked and raped her.

Bond has been set at $150,000.

If anyone knows the whereabouts of Chandler, please call the Shreveport Police Department at 673-7300 or Crime Stoppers at 673-7000.

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