A Gary man admitted he offered an older woman $120 to not call the police after he raped her early on New Year’s Eve, according to charges.
Keontrell S. Gill, 19, of the 1500 block of Arthur Place, is wanted on multiple felony charges.
He is ordered held on $11,000 cash bond.
The woman told police she heard a noise from her spare storage bedroom between 7-7:30 a.m. Dec. 31. A man later identified as Gill crawled in through an unlocked window, charges state.
Frightened, the woman asked what he was doing there. When she tried to leave her apartment, he grabbed her, then punched her in the face, charges state.
“I just want sex,” he told her, according to court documents.
He forced her to perform a sex act twice, then told her to get on the bed and raped her, the affidavit states.
He then offered to pay her to stop her from calling the police. The woman agreed to get him out of the apartment, replaced the screen on her window and called 911, documents said.
Police and paramedics arrived minutes later. She was “tearful and shaking,” they wrote.
Gill then returned with the money from a nearby gas station and the woman identified him to police.
“She’s a prostitute,” Gill told police.
He was then arrested.
Gill later admitted raping her, documents said. He claimed he was “drunk” and testing various windows in the complex to see which one was open. Gill told police he climbed into another apartment with a couple napping with a child in the living room, claiming to be a “building coordinator,” then left, charging documents said.
He is charged with four counts of rape, two counts of burglary, one count each of residential entry, sexual battery and misdemeanor battery.
Gill is also facing another set of charges from Dec. 31 including two counts of robbery, one count of escape and one count of residential entry, according to court records.
