A man was arrested after Gainesville Police said he pulled a woman from her electric wheelchair, forced her to the ground and sexually assaulted her.
Ricky Morrow, 44, attacked a woman riding a Hoveround electric wheelchair on a trail near P.K. Yonge School at about 7 a.m., according to an arrest report. She told police she was using the trail as a shortcut to a store and stopped to bend down and fix something in the chair.
Morrow appeared out of nowhere, forced the woman from the chair to the ground and raped her, according to the report. The woman saw Morrow’s face during the attack and recognized him as someone she’d known years ago.
She said his name, and Morrow took her phone and left on a bicycle, according to the report.
Police used what the woman told them about Morrow to find him about six hours later in his home, which is about half a mile away from where the attack took place, according to the report.
He was arrested on charges of preventing communication to law enforcement, unarmed robbery and sexual battery.
Morrow was taken to the Alachua County Jail where he remains, as of press time, in lieu of a $300,000 bond.
Contact Robert Lewis at rlewis@alligator.org. Follow him on Twitter at @Lewis__Robert.
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