Federal prosecutors have charged two men with kidnapping a DePaul University student and taking him on a terrifying crosstown Red Line ride during which they repeatedly threatened to kill him while making electronic bank transfers and issuing ransom demands to his friends and family.
CWB Chicago first reported on the case in October after state prosecutors charged Ricky Willis, 18, and Keyonte Love, 20, in connection with the September abduction of a DePaul freshman aboard a southbound Red Line train.
According to state prosecutors, the incident began around 2 a.m. on September 6 when Love and Willis boarded a train at the Argyle station. When the train reached Fullerton, near the university’s Lincoln Park campus, the student stepped aboard their train car, unaware of what was about to unfold…