Aransas Pass (KIII News) — Police in Aransas Pass revisits a case that centers around the beating and sexual assault of a young woman back in October of 2013 on the 900 block of Commercial Street.
New DNA evidence can help police catch the man responsible after the suspect got away and the victim survived the horrible crime.
On October 2, 2013, a young woman was on a late night walk heading towards Rockport when police said she noticed a man approach her.
"Started talking to her, started to attack her, and then he drug her off to the side of the road, and she was pretty brutally assaulted," said Capt. Kyle Rhodes, Aransas Pass police detective.
According to Rhodes, police were able to collect DNA evidence with the victim helping paint a vivid picture of the face of her attacker.
"He was described as a Hispanic male, average build, average weight probably in his 20's mid to late 20's described as having a scar on his upper chest, the victim described a tattoo as a grim reaper, on his upper right chest," Rhodes said.
No one was ever arrested for the crime even with the detailed features the woman was able to provide for police and after the sketch was released.
"This was a very brutal attack; we would like to get it resolved and get closure for the victim," Rhodes said.
Five years after that brutal crime Aransas Pass police are digging back into that case thanks to a break in DNA evidence found hundreds of miles away in Houston.
"I was approached not that long ago, about a year and a half, by Houston PD and they are working a case which they submitted DNA, and it hit. it was a match," Rhodes said. "Potentially this person who did this crime is in the Houston area also committing crimes, Houston PD is also trying to find a name on a person in their case."
Recently, police reposted the sketch of the attacker on social media in hopes of bringing the case to a successful end.
"It's exciting to have a potential lead, but ill be more excited when we'll get an actual name subject, so we can potentially link the two cases and resolve it," Rhodes said.
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