Flat tire leads to rape attempt

A 33-year-old woman reported early Monday two men attempted to rape her when she asked for help after the tire on her vehicle went flat near Third Avenue South and Withers Swash Drive, according to a police report. The Myrtle Beach woman and two friends, who were passengers, stopped just after midnight Monday to change the woman's tire, the report said. The woman walked up the street to a blue Dodge Caravan near Withers Swash Park to ask two men inside the van for a wrench to change the tire. The two men inside the van told the woman it was in the back and to get it herself, the report said. When the woman opened the door one of the men pushed her inside the van and she struggled with him to get away. The woman escaped through the front driver's door, but both men grabbed her and began punching, kicking and choking her.

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