Ladies: Protect thyself!
8:17am Saturday, May 21, 2005
Toledo police released a sketch yesterday of a man accused of sexually assaulting a 42-year-old East Toledo woman after approaching her with a knife last week. The woman was walking home from a house in the 1500 block of Albert Street in East Toledo when she approached the viaduct on East Broadway about 7:30 p.m. May 12. The suspect approached her from behind with a knife and threatened to hurt her, police said. The man then forced the victim up the stairs, across the viaduct and along the train tracks. He forced her into a wooded area and assaulted her, police said. The suspect was startled by a
passing train and ran down the side of the tracks away from East Broadway. The victim went back across the viaduct to a bar, where she saw the suspect come out to East Broadway from behind a business and go toward Fassett Street. She was treated at St. Charles Mercy Hospital. The suspect is described as white, 20 to 25 years old, 5 feet, 10 inches tall, 185 pounds, with brown hair and a goatee. He was wearing blue jeans and a red shirt with white sleeves.
Police say a serial rapist who was charged last week in an April sexual assault has been charged again, NBC 4's Erin Tate reported. Raymond Richmond was charged Thursday with another sexual assault after police said his DNA confirmed his involvement. The sexual battery occurred last summer, Tate reported. Richmond, 40, served 20 years for burglary and kidnapping out of a campus-area sexual assault in 1984. Police said Richmond committed six knife-wielding stranger rapes in the 1980s. He was paroled a year ago, Tate reported. In April, Richmond was arrested on a concealed carry violation after police said an officer noticed him driving suspiciously. The officer ran a background check on Richmond and remembered a woman had been raped at gunpoint behind a grocery store near The Ohio State University campus. The officer then asked sexual assault investigators to look into Richmond, Tate reported. "This officer noticed this individual doing something suspicious, pulled him over, ran a check and found that he had this past, remembered this very violent rape and connected the two," said Columbus police spokeswoman Sherry Mercurio. "Now we can tell two victims, 'We have the person responsible.' " Police charged Richmond last weekend with the April assault. On Thursday, police released his photo after they said a DNA sample confirmed his involvement in the other sexual assault, which occurred last July -- just three months after Richmond was released from prison.
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