Man attacked 5 women at UCLA within an hour before being captured by police, prosecutors say - BERITAJA

A man has been charged pinch assaulting 5 women astatine UCLA, 4 of them students, according to authorities.

Olumuyiwa Akindahunsi, 29, is charged pinch 1 felony count of attempted kidnapping to perpetrate a forcible rape, 3 felony counts of battle pinch the effort to perpetrate a forcible rape during a first-degree burglary and 2 felony counts of battle apt to nutrient awesome bodily injury, according to a Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office news release.

“These disturbing attacks onslaught astatine the halfway of field safety, traumatizing 5 victims and unsettling field life,” Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman said successful a media statement. “We are moving intimately pinch the UCLA Police Department to bring the attacker to justness and guarantee that he will beryllium held afloat accountable for his actions.”

Akindahunsi is accused of attacking respective women the nighttime of May 28. He has pleaded not blameworthy to each charges.

According to prosecutors, he allegedly attacked a female about 11:30 p.m., who ran distant pinch her phone.

He past followed 2 students to their dorm room and sexually assaulted them both, according to the news release.

After that, authorities said, he went into a different dorm building connected field and tried to kidnap a female to battle her, but she escaped, and he fled.

He past allegedly assaulted a female successful the hallway of her dorm, during which personification other intervened, according to the release. Akindahunsi was past detained by UCLA Police.

If convicted, he faces 32 years to life successful authorities situation and would besides beryllium required to registry arsenic a activity offender for life.