Oakland woman videos rape suspect with her phone

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(06-08) 18:21 PDT OAKLAND --

Oakland police are searching for a man who sexually assaulted a woman and escaped after she took a video of him with her cell phone, authorities said Wednesday.

The 28-year-old woman was alone in her home on the 900 block of Apgar Street in West Oakland when she was confronted by a man who had forced his way inside, said Officer Holly Joshi, an Oakland police spokeswoman.

The woman used her cell phone to record the man as he took electronic items from her and briefly left her home, Joshi said. The man then returned and sexually assaulted her, police said.

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1. "When he briefly left her home" would have been a good time to lock the door. nt

[TheMadMonk]

2. Assuming his method of entry didn't make that impossible.

"Forced his way inside." suggests breaking a lock somewhere. And frankly the easiest and quietest (of forceful methods) is a jemmy in the jamb.

[BeHereNow]

13. Trust me- I have been inside that house. The back door would be easy to break in.

There is a front entrance down a staircase- it's just too bad the girl didn't have time to go out the front.
Sounds like she thought he had left.

I hope she is going to be okay and gets the hell out of that neighborhood.

BHN

[Tempest]

3. Or call 911 n/t

[Xithras]

5. It's Oakland

The guy left her home, and she probably didn't realize that he was coming back. In West Oakland, if you call the police to report a robbery that has already happened, it can be HOURS before an officer arrives. They only dispatch police officers immediately when there's a crime in progress.

I had a couple of relatives who lived off San Pablo in West Oakland near the Emeryville city line. From experience, I can tell you that the police around there are next to useless. My relatives moved out of there years ago because they couldn't deal with it anymore. That entire area is plagued by constant crime, apathetic city leaders, and ineffective law enforcement.

[mulsh]

7. the OPD responds the same in the Glenview and up in Montclair.

Our boys in blue are next to useless, the middle and upper levels are useless. As for the entire are being plauged by "constant crime" not true. I had a studio on 7th & Wood for 20 or so years and knew most of the neighbors and the kids and people in the projects, I never had a problem and this was in the 70's,80's & early 90's.

However the apathetic city leaders and ineffective law enforcement is spot on

[Xithras]

8. Well....

In the last five years they lived there, their house was broken into at least once a year, they had a car stolen, the husband was propositioned by several hookers in his own front yard, and there were a number of murders within a several block radius of their home. His neighbor, a 90 year old black lady, was robbed at gunpoint on her own front steps. The last straw for him was when a 14 year old kid was knifed on the sidewalk across the street from his house. The kid wasn't in a gang or robbed...he was just walking home from school when a couple of losers decided to jump him. The husband sat out there for almost 10 minutes with the kid waiting for the ambulance to get there, helping to hold the kids guts in with a hand towel. The kid survived, but that was the day he decided to leave.

I don't know about 7th and Wood, but it was nuts around Macarthur and San Pablo. The area had an above average crime rate when they moved into it in 1994/95, but it was tolerable, and there was a bit of community spirit with the neighbors...it was an older black neighborhood with a lot of proud residents who owned their homes. By the time they moved out a few years ago, the older residents were gone, the pride was gone, the neighborhood was all rentals, and the street gangs and junkies controlled the place.

Obviously, I disagree with your opinion that it's not crime plagued. It was, and according to the CrimeSpotting site still is, a crime-dense area.

[sudopod]

4. What the fuck? nt

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[tblue37]

11. Read the comment she left in reply to another comment. He never

left the apartment--and because her landlord had threatened to evict her when she ran from the apartment and called the cops about men coming into her apartment before--they were contractors he hadn't notified her of--she just thought it was another contractor.

The landlord had sent her a letter saying guys would be coming into her apartment pretty much at will, and that he had hired them, so she should just let them do their work, and if she created a difficult work environment for them he would evict her. She didn't know this wasn't one of the landlord's contractors, and his threats left her with no option for defending herself by running out and calling the cops.

I think she has grounds for a hell of a lawsuit against her scummy landlord.

[BeHereNow]

12. Indeed -the landlord is a scumbag.

That back door, at least while my daughter lived there,
could have been kicked in by a 10 year old.

The bottom of the house was where the black mold started-
all the kids downstairs moved out.
There were only a few kids living in the upstairs for a few
weeks after everyone else had bailed.

It was a slum- plain and simple and the landlord was
making a fortune off the naive kids who lived there.

Apparently some other older young adults offered
to move in and help renovate, they were living in the upstairs
which is where the video was shot, in a hallway that led to the back door.
My daughter still has friends in that neighborhood, which is not all bad.
There are some houses there that have families who have lived there for years.
Unfortunately, the Oakland police don't seem to care much about
making the neighborhood safe for them.

They would have been living in the upper part of the house as the lower
level was being run over by black mold.

The kids who rented it prior probably should sue for damages
due to the black mold which the land lord did nothing about.
I would assume that is why the contractors were coming and going-
to deal with the mold downstairs.

Like I said- I am just so relieved my daughter got out of there.

BHN

[BlueIris]

6. Kick. nt

[BeHereNow]

9. Holy Shit! That is where my daughter lived for nearly 2 years.

I recognized the back hallway floors and washing machine and dryer in the video.
It is a old victorian house that was know for years as "Apgar House"
occupied by a bunch of young people who were trying to have a commune.
The building was a disaster and the land lord absent- no out door lights,
no maintenance on the building what-so-ever.
The house next to them was occupied by squatters and crack dealers.
The corner near the house was a notorious drug dealing corner.

Eventually everyone moved out because the downstairs had black mold
forming. Some other people moved in and wanted to restore the place.
It was no longer a "crash pad" for touring "bands" and travelers.

I'm just surprised nothing bad happened to any of the kids before now.
This incident probably happened because the perp knew the house was no longer occupied by 15-20
people coming and going at all hours of the night and day.
I think that is the only reason no one broke in before- too many people, most
of them young men.

Needless to say, I am SO glad my daughter moved home.
I didn't sleep one night through the entire time she was living there.

BHN