Man charged in 2014 Durham rape

Tuesday, October 27, 2015
DURHAM (WTVD) -- The Durham Police Department has arrested a man in a 2014 sexual assault.

On May 25, 2014 authorities said a woman was walking in an alley between Ninth and Iredell streets around 12:30 a.m. when a man with a knife pushed her to the ground and sexually assaulted her.
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She was later taken to the hospital for treatment of minor injuries.

Investigators have charged D'Monte Lamont Okelly, 18, of Durham with first-degree rape, first-degree kidnapping, and assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury.

Okelly was already in the Durham County Jail on a felony probation violation. His bond on the new charges is $1 million.

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