DNA, detective work used to track down Thurston County rape suspect in Texas

A Thurston County detective used DNA to hunt down a man accused of breaking into an apartment and raping a woman in Washington before going to live with a relative in Texas.

The detective says Xavier Carrol did not know the woman, and her three kids were asleep in the other room during the assault.

Carrol looked on with his defense attorney in court Tuesday, as the woman who accused him of assaulting her gave an emotional impact statement in court.

Xavier Carrol in court

"I had children at home and I would ask you to consider flight risk and the additional danger and fear if he were to get released on bond," she said to the judge.

Carrol is accused of breaking into her Evergreen Garden apartment, and raping her while her kids were sleeping.

"Obviously the community was outraged and scared as well as our survivor," said Detective Carrie Nastansky with the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office.

What we know:

Court documents show the woman told investigators she, "heard her bedroom door open around four in the morning" and "saw an unknown male suspect standing in her room."

When she asked him how he got in, "he responded with, ‘Don’t worry about it.'"

He reportedly said, "you are going to like this," and then assaulted her, according to court documents.

"In this situation, she chose to keep her children safe and was trying to get him out of the home as quickly as she could without waking up her children," said Nastansky.

The woman told investigators that she tried to get him to leave by telling him she needed a drink of water, and also saying she had to go to work. When the assault finally stopped, he asked, "when she was free next."

The woman told investigators that he also said that, "he was sorry for being from Chicago and being forceful" and "she was going to see him again," saying "if she hears loud music, that’s him."

"I’ve been a special victims detective for 7.5 years now and this the first stranger rape that we’ve had in Thurston County, at least with the sheriff’s office in that amount of time," said Nastansky.

A sketch was created of the suspect while the state crime lab analyzed DNA that was found on the victim through a sexual assault kit.

Nastansky says on Dec. 4, a CODIS hit came back for Carrol. He was wanted on a Thurston County warrant for theft. 

Nastansky found an address on his Texas driver’s license, and law enforcement there discovered that he was living at the home of a family member in El Paso. Upon arrest, he admitted to living at the Evergreen Garden Apartments, according to investigators.

"He acknowledged he had been staying there with a friend at the time," said Nastansky.

On Tuesday, Judge Allyson Zipp set his bail at $750,000.

"She was terrified he would come back and try to do something again to her. This was a very big priority case for the sheriff’s office to put all of our resources into, to identify this individual," said Nastansky. 

Carrol is scheduled to be arraigned Feb. 18.

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