CHICAGO — A person awaiting trial for 2 violent sexual assault makes an attempt is now linked to a 3rd case during which a house invader sexually assaulted a lady in Logan Sq.. Denzel Tyree, 29, has been in jail since prosecutors accused him earlier this 12 months of violently attacking and attempting to sexually assault a 16-year-old lady in 2022 and a pregnant lady in January.
Now, prosecutors are charging him with a September 13, 2023, house invasion and sexual assault within the 1900 block of North Mozart.
Decide Ankur Srivastava ordered Tyree to stay in jail for the third case, saying Tyree’s conduct was “so violent and wicked that any degree of entry to the group poses too nice a threat.”
Prosecutors stated video confirmed Tyree coming into the 41-year-old lady’s house round 9:30 a.m. Whereas he was inside her condominium, he sexually assaulted the lady at knifepoint within the presence of her 3-year-old granddaughter, based on the allegations.
Chicago police detectives issued a group alert inside hours of the assault. Officers stated that somebody who had recognized Tyree for 3 years recognized him in a surveillance picture of the assailant.
He’s charged with aggravated felony sexual assault whereas armed with a weapon, aggravated armed kidnapping, and committing a intercourse offense throughout a house invasion.
A grand jury returned two true payments within the beforehand filed circumstances, charging him with 26 felonies, together with house invasion and a number of counts of tried sexual assault, kidnapping, and aggravated battery.
Srivastava, the decide who heard Tyree’s detention listening to this week, stated the “brutality and violence of [the] allegations exhibits [a] complete lack of civility or skill to regulate impulses.”
Two different circumstances
When prosecutors charged Tyree in March with randomly attacking two females since 2022, abducting and choking a 16-year-old lady from a Northwest Facet road, and later attacking and attempting to sexually assault a pregnant lady throughout a house invasion, Decide William Fahy twice applauded the “glorious investigative work” by the Chicago Police Division that led to Tyree’s arrest.
“To characterize [the allegations] as completely horrifying is an understatement,” Fahy stated. “Fortunately, as a result of [the victims] have been courageous sufficient to withstand the defendant’s efforts, they survived.”
Assistant State’s Lawyer Alexandra Rafajko instructed Fahy the primary assault occurred round 9:30 a.m. on June 26, 2022, within the 5500 block of West Wellington.
{The teenager} was strolling towards a park when Tyree, carrying a masks, confronted her with a pocket knife, grabbed her, and ordered her to get into the again of his SUV, Rafajko stated, based on a transcript of the detention continuing.
She stated the lady struggled and kicked Tyree, however he managed to get her into the automobile. When the lady took out her cellphone to name for assist, he ripped it away and tossed it someplace contained in the automotive, Rafajko alleged.
Tyree climbed on prime of the lady, strangling her with each arms till she couldn’t communicate or breathe, Rafajko continued. She stated the lady misplaced her imaginative and prescient momentarily as Tyree ordered her to cease resisting.
Rafajko stated the lady obtained a number of cuts on her elbow, aspect, arms, and thigh throughout the wrestle. One of many accidents required stitches.
She defined that Tyree stopped choking the lady, climbed behind the wheel of the automobile, and drove away with the sufferer nonetheless at the back of the SUV. The teenager was lastly capable of open one of many rear doorways. She bailed out, screaming, and obtained assist from a close-by resident, based on the transcript.
Utilizing footage from a collection of metropolis and personal surveillance cameras, Chicago cops tracked the SUV from the second the lady escaped till Tyree pulled right into a carwash a couple of minutes later, stated Rafajko. A digital camera enterprise captured footage of Tyree’s face when he rolled down his window to pay for the carwash.
Police executed a search warrant on Tyree’s silver Jeep Grand Cherokee and recovered the sufferer’s DNA on a swab of its inside, Rafajko stated. He would later inform investigators that his Jeep had been stolen on the day of the assault, however Rafajko stated CPD discovered no document of a report being filed.
Rafajko didn’t clarify why costs weren’t accredited within the case prior to now.
In the meantime, the second lady, who was six months pregnant, was attacked within the 2600 block of North Lavergne on January 26 of this 12 months. Rafajko stated the lady was house alone round 9:30 a.m. after her accomplice and one among his family members left for work.
She was out and in of sleep till she heard her bed room door open. She pulled out her cellphone to shine a light-weight on the intruder. It was Tyree, dressed solely in black, Rafajko stated.
He climbed into her mattress, kneeled at her aspect, and commenced choking her with each arms as she screamed, Rafajko alleged. She stated Tyree didn’t say something aside from telling her to be quiet and “shushing” her.
When the lady requested if he needed cash, he responded by “shushing” her once more, Rafajko continued.
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After eradicating his arms from her neck, he pulled down his pants and reached for his groin, Rafajko stated. The sufferer acquired up and ran to the entrance door. He lower her off, pushed her onto a sofa, and commenced punching her within the head and choking her once more, based on the allegations.
He once more pulled down his pants and eliminated his privates, however then seen that she was pregnant and stopped, Rafajko acknowledged. He ran out the door after attempting, however failing, to hit the lady with a vase.
DNA testing discovered Tyree’s genetic profile on the t-shirt the sufferer wore throughout the assault, Rafajko claimed. She stated surveillance video confirmed him working up the road and fleeing in a rental automotive that Chicago cops traced again to Tyree. The sufferer picked him out in a photograph line-up about ten days after the assault.
Assistant Public Defender Joseph Crawford argued towards placing Tyree in jail, stating that the primary sufferer couldn’t “confidently” establish him.
Whereas Tyree admitted to being on the second sufferer’s constructing on the day of the assault, Crawford stated that he “adamantly” denies that he’s the perpetrator. Tyree claims he solely went to the constructing to promote some weed, based on Crawford.
The fees towards Tyree embody house invasion, tried felony sexual assault throughout the fee of a felony, two counts of aggravated kidnapping, and aggravated battery by strangulation.
