Black postal worker on trial in string of Chicago rapes

A woman, then 16, was standing at a bus stop on her way to a shopping mall when a black man suddenly grabbed her by the arm as he brandished a screwdriver. He said, "Get in the car or I will kill you." As he drove through an alley, she pleaded with him to let her go. He promised he wasn't going to rape her, but he soon stopped the car and sexually assaulted her. African-American Tommie Naylor, 43, is the former postal worker accused in the rape. Naylor is on trial for a separate attack of a 15-year-old girl in 2008. He is charged in five rapes of teenage girls. Three of the victims testified under an Illinois statute allowing evidence that demonstrates a defendant has a propensity to commit sex offenses. Naylor was arrested in 2009 at the south suburban mail-sorting facility where he worked. Detectives had matched his vehicle to a partial license plate number from one victim. DNA matched him to each of the five sexual assaults.