Two men lured to the south suburbs for sex instead found themselves in a life-or-death struggle with violent robbers. One escaped with his life. The other was found dead.

The men were lured separately by text messages and believed they were coming to a house at 144th Street and University Avenue in Dolton on Wednesday to meet a woman for sex. When the men arrived, they were set upon by at least two attackers who beat and robbed them, Dolton police told CBS Chicago, then bound them and put them into the trunks of separate cars.

One man managed to spring the emergency latch and flee. He ran into a store in Riverdale, bloody and bound in duct tape, and screamed: "Help me! Help me! People are trying to kidnap me!"