An armed, unmasked black man, identified by a scar over one of his eyes, broke into a home on Greenwood Road, off Village Road on October 29, terrorised the man of the house and raped his wife.
The husband had nodded off while watching a ball game downsatirs. When he went upstairs that Sunday his wife was already in bed. He fell into a deep sleep. She was just falling asleep when she heard a noise in the house. She awakened him. It was about 11:30PM
Suddenly, he said a man with a flashlight was walking down their hall. The man had kicked in the front door downsatirs, walked up the stairs, pushed in the door at the top of the stairs, and entered their room, blinding them with the flashlight.
“Okay,” said the intruder, “I want your f—ing money!”
The man’s wife, who had US$700 in cash for a trip to Miami, told the intruder she would get the money.
Meanwhile, her husband had been ordered not to look at the intruder. He was told to lie on the floor with his head turned away. The little potcake who sleeps in the couple’s bedroom, started to growl. The armed robber threatened to shoot the dog if it bothered him. The husband called the dog to him.
The husband, who was at a disadvantage because he was not wearing his glasses, was further blinded by the light shining in his face. Other than the light from the flashlight the room was in darkness.
The robber warned the husband to stay on the floor and not move. “If you move I’ll kill everybody,” he threatened. Just down the hall the couple’s four-year-old twins were asleep in their room.
“This is an old wooden house,” said the husband, “I was afraid that if I moved he would hear the floor boards creak and kill everybody.”
the robber had ripped the cord from the telephone which was on the other side of the bed, out of the husband’s reach.
The robber ordered the man’s wife to go with him downstairs. The intruder closed the bedroom door as he took the wife downstairs at gunpoint. There he raped her.
About ten minutes later the husband heard a car pull out. His wife returned upstairs. “This was such a safe neighbourhood,” said the husband. “It was so nice and peaceful. For this to happen just blows me away.”
The couple’s two Labrador dogs were fenced off at the back of the house.
The intruder had driven down the cul-de-sac road and turned his car around to face west for a quick get-away. When the wife returned upstairs the telephone was replugged in and the police were called.
“The police were here in ten minutes,” said the husband, “I was impressed.”
A few days later a couple of black men were in a line in a public place. One of them was overheard boasting to the others about how he raped white women.
Source: The Tribune
