20-year-old Charles Williams 

 

WARSAW, Ind. (WOWO): An Illinois man was arrested Thursday after allegedly raping a woman in the parking lot of a Warsaw hotel back in August.

20-year-old Charles Williams of Illinois was arrested after being positively identified by the victim as one of three men who attacked her. He was preliminarily charged with rape – armed with a deadly weapon, and is being held in the Kosciusko County jail on a $25,000 bond.

  

The victim identified one of the attackers as a member of a rap group she saw perform at Aloha Bar that night, but no other arrests have been made at this time.

According to court documents, the victim said she and her cousin had been at Aloha Bar for a concert and then went to their hotel. The victim said she noticed her vehicle had been burglarized and while she was checking her car, the group of men approached her vehicle.

According to the victim, one man climbed into the back of the vehicle and pinned her down, raping her. The other men then attempted to force her to perform other sexual acts. The woman told police that as she screamed and told them to stop, they choked her around the neck.

The victim’s cousin told officers she had gone inside the hotel and when she came back out, she saw the men gathered around the victim’s vehicle. The witness told officers she could hear her cousin screaming and telling the men to stop. When she attempted to help the victim, the witness said one man placed a gun to her ribs and told her to “shut up and watch,” the affidavit states.

The victim said the men stopped after about 20 to 30 minutes of abuse, got into a vehicle and left.