Man found with zip ties and duct tape charged with assaulting 5 women at UCLA - BERITAJA

A man was charged Wednesday pinch assaulting 5 women in little than an hr at the University of California Los Angeles past month, officials said.

Olumuyiwa Akindahunsi, 29, is accused of sexually assaulting 2 women and trying to sexually battle a 3rd female astatine UCLA’s Westwood campus, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. Two different women were physically assaulted.

The assaults occurred betwixt 11:30 p.m May 28 and soon aft midnight, the prosecutor’s agency said.

Akindahunsi was recovered pinch zip ties, duct portion and a paracord erstwhile authorities took him into custody, the school’s constabulary section said successful a connection past week.

Four of the women were students, the prosecutor’s agency said Wednesday.

Akindahunsi was described arsenic bum by the schoolhouse constabulary department. The territory attorney’s agency said he isn’t a student and didn’t person support to beryllium connected campus.

“Our assemblage campuses request to beryllium safe and protected spaces for our students, faculty, unit and organization — and we will do everything successful our powerfulness to guarantee that this happens,” Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said successful the release.

Akindahunsi was charged pinch 1 count of attempted kidnapping to perpetrate a forcible rape; 3 counts of battle pinch the effort to perpetrate a forcible rape during the committee of a first-degree burglary; and 2 felony counts of battle apt to nutrient awesome bodily injury, according to the release.

Court records didn’t database an lawyer for Akindahunsi. Jail records show he’s being held without bail.

The first alleged battle was reported connected the main pedestrian walkway connected campus, and a student said a man approached her from down and utilized unit to bargain her cellphone earlier fleeing, according to the school’s constabulary department.

Minutes later, the territory attorney’s agency said, Akindahunsi allegedly followed 2 women into their dorm and sexually assaulted 1 of them. The different female was physically assaulted, the prosecutor’s agency said.

Akindahunsi past entered different dorm building and allegedly sought to kidnap a female successful a hallway to sexually battle her, according to the territory attorney’s office. The female collapsed free and the suspect fled.

He was accused of sexually assaulting a 5th female successful the hallway of her dorm earlier a adjacent resident intervened and the fishy fled, the territory attorney’s agency said.

University constabulary officers recovered Akindahunsi adjacent a field parking structure, the section said.

Police said that aggregate accusers and witnesses identified him arsenic the suspect.