Guilty plea in 22nd/Roxbury rape/beating attack
Just discovered this on one of our routine weekly-or-so check of files in certain court cases; it happened last week but has gone unreported and unannounced until now (also just published on our partner site West Seattle Blog):
The man charged in last March’s rape and beating of a 58-year-old woman near 22nd/Roxbury has pleaded guilty. The attack drew coverage in media all around the region, as deputies went door to door searching for clues to solve the exceptionally violent attack; investigators even circulated a sketch and a photo of the victim’s distinctive purse, hoping to jog someone’s memory.
Eventually, a DNA match led investigators to 25-year-old Christopher Anthony Brown, who then was arrested in Oklahoma in June, charged with rape and assault, and extradited. Investigators said Brown had been visiting the White Center area when he attacked the victim as she waited for a bus after leaving Roxbury Lanes. First, investigators said, he asked her for a cigarette, which she gave him; then he offered her money for sex, which she declined, so he attacked her – dragging her into nearby shrubbery, choking her until she was nearly unconscious, beating her, raping her, robbing her, threatening to kill her and her family if she reported it.
Court documents say prosecutors will recommend a sentence that would put Brown in prison for 171 months – 14 years plus 3 months – and then he would be on probation (community custody) for the rest of his life. Brown pleaded guilty last week to one count each of rape, assault, and robbery. King County Superior Court Judge Julie Spector is scheduled to sentence him on November 14th.
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