A man suspected of sexually assaulting three women this month was arrested after police caught him brutally assaulting a 67-year-old woman in the front yard of a house in the San Francisco Bay Area.
When officers were called home by witnesses on Thursday, they saw a naked man sexually assault the victim “in broad daylight,” Fremont police said in a statement.
The officials stopped the attack and took 28-year-old Alexander Lomax into custody, the statement said. He has been booked on an investigation into several crimes including kidnapping, sexual violence and assault with the intent of rape. He was held without bail until a trial Monday.
It is not known whether he retained a lawyer who could speak on his behalf.
The victim was rushed to hospital with multiple fractures and facial injuries.
The attack came less than two hours after a 57-year-old woman was sexually assaulted a mile away. In the attack, police said the victim was walking on Auto Mall Parkway when she was hit in the back of the head and pushed to the ground. The woman bit her attacker on the arm and the attacker fled when a witness interrupted the attack, police said.
The victim clearly identified Lomax as the man who attacked her, the police statement said.
During their investigation, detectives linked Lomax to a May 5 incident in which a 75-year-old woman shopping at a grocery store was grabbed from the back and pushed by a man she later identified as Lomax.
“As a police chief and as a woman, I am utterly appalled by this crime,” said police chief Kimberly Petersen.
Petersen called the case the department’s “top priority”, saying detectives were trying to determine if there were other victims and to ensure that all victims received support services.
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