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The Thursday night attack was so brutal that the woman's screams could be heard by nearby neighbors in the Philadelphia section of Richmond. Someone in the area heard the woman's cries and called police. The two teen suspects were arrested a short time later after being found with some of the woman's belongings.

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The two Philadelphia teens now under arrest in connection with the gunpoint rape and robbery of a woman walking home from a gym allegedly threatened to kill the woman and her family if she called police, the Associated Press is reporting.

NBC-10 of Philadelphia is reporting that the Thursday night attack was so brutal that the woman's screams could be heard by nearby neighbors.

Someone in the area heard the woman's cries and called police, the station reported.

"This was a very violent crime, a very heinous crime," Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small told NBC-10.

Citing police, AP reports that the teens allegedly accosted the woman at gunpoint around 11 p.m. Thursday on Richmond Street in an industrial and commercial area of Philadelphia's Port Richmond section near Interstate 95.

The pair allegedly dragged the woman behind a building and assaulted her, including raping her in a dimly lit area near freight rail tracks that run close to the Delaware River, AP reports.

The suspects took cash, cell phone and other items from the woman, AP adds. The pair were found with some of those same items a short time later, leading to their arrests.