Current News Headlines: Metro Man Arrested After Attacking 69-Year-Old Woman At Knife Point
A 33-year-old metro man identified as Rodney Arnold, has been arrested after he attacked a 69-year-old woman at knife point and r*ped her. The incident happened Monday afternoon near NE 23rd and Prospect. The victim’s daughter told News 4:
“I have been through something like this, as well. But, for my mom to go through this, I’m still trying to come to terms with it myself.”
Arnold was caught on camera by the victims’ family, smirking while being arrested. She said:
“When I got here, they already had him in the back of the police car and they had her in the car, questioning her.”
According to a probable cause affidavit, after Arnold offered to help the woman carry furniture to her home, he followed the victim inside even though she asked him to wait outside. He then pinned her to the floor while holding a knife and demanded the victim “give him sex.” He then threatened her and said, “I will cut you and stab you to death.”
The victim’s daughter said, “She walks this neighborhood going to the bus when we can’t come and pick her up. For him to have done this to her, he had to have been following her.” Meanwhile, the victim’s grandson also said, “Any mothers, parents out there, do not allow somebody you don’t know to help you.”
“For him to do that to her, she’s a kind woman. She’d do anything that she can for anybody,” the daughter said. “That’s my heart. I would die for that one.”
Arnold is currently on probation after being released from prison where he was doing time for several violent crimes, including assault on a police officer. He was booked into the Oklahoma County Jail on several charges including kidnapping, assault and battery and r*pe.
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