APD is asking for assistance in finding a man accused of one rape and one attempted rape within an hour of each other early Saturday morning. After attempting to rape a woman in the parking garage at 301 congress ended with the attacker being maced by the vistim, he then went to the railyard apartments, forced his way into a condo with a knife and raped the woman there.
For more on the story and a description of the suspect, read the KXAN story here.
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Because of this story, several of us downtown residents went shopping for MACE this morning and have vowed to *never go running unarmed* in the early morning hours. There is often very suspicious activity in the pre-dawn hours *every day of the week* in the 5th street, Convention Center, Railyard area. This story has driven home for us just how dangerous these streets have become.
The lady who ‘maced’ this guy is a hero. And at least the woman at the Railyard can know that through her tragedy, we are starting to learn the hard lessons here in downtown.