SALEM — A Rollinsford woman and a Massachusetts man face charges in a bizarre beating case police say began with an online ad.

SALEM — A Rollinsford woman and a Massachusetts man face charges in a bizarre beating case police say began with an online ad.



Police were called to the Red Roof Inn early Sunday for a report of a fight. According to a press release, they found a naked man bleeding from his head and two people attempting to flee the scene.



Police say witnesses saw a naked man being chased by another man and a pit bull across the motel parking lot. The man was tackled and then beaten with brass knuckles.



Salem Police say Ryanne McCann, 27, of Rollinsford, and Vincent Evelyn, 32, of Dorchester, Mass., are facing multiple felony charges.



The victim answered a Backpage ad, and police say when he entered the hotel room he was confronted by Evelyn and McCann, stripped down and held in the room.



When Evelyn went to the victim's car to find more money, the then-naked victim fought with McCann who was blocking the door and escaped into the parking lot where he was run down and beaten. Salem Police charged McCann with criminal restraint and simple assault, she is being held on $15,000 cash bail.

Evelyn was charged with first-degree assault, robbery with a deadly weapon, criminal restraint, felon in possession of a deadly weapon and attempting to destroy or hide evidence.



The victim received numerous stitches for the head wound. The pit bull was taken to the Salem Kennel.