Surveillance cameras captured rape in Washington DC
Surveillance cameras captured rape in Washington DC
The young woman’s memory of what happened to her in the parking garage of a Northwest cathedral was hazy, but she remembered enough to tell police she had been raped.
The extent of the New Year’s Day attack became brutally clear when police found surveillance camera footage that captured video of two men raping her as she was apparently too drunk even to stand upright on her own.
The Metropolitan Police Department announced Sunday that those two men are Matthew Maldonado, 26, and Nicholas Shultz, 21, whose last name was also spelled “Schultz” in court records. Both have been charged with second-degree sexual assault.
The sexual assault happened in a parking garage next to the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in the early morning hours of Jan. 1, 2013. The woman had gone to Midtown Club, a bar located around the block from the parking garage, to celebrate on New Year’s Eve, police wrote in court documents after interviewing the woman. There she told officers she ran into Mr. Schultz and Mr. Maldonado, whom she knew from working at a Temple Hills martial arts studio. The woman was too drunk to drive at the end of the night and left the club with the two men under the impression that one of them would drive her to the home of a colleague where she could sleep, court documents say.
Instead the group walked into the parking garage, where both of the men raped her, then left her passed out on the concrete to be found by a passer-by who heard her cries for help and called police.
Police did not write in the court documents how long the assault lasted but described in a five-page affidavit the details the woman could recall as well as what was seen on the surveillance camera.
CCTV cameras are proving to be a boon in capturing crimes and providing justice to people who are being exploited.
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