Hello, everyone. The investigation into this horrific attack is just beginning. Our Team Coverage begins with fox 25s john monahan. John is live outside the Lawrence Police department where this suspect is being held tonight. Mateo, the suspect wears an,le bracelet. He is not a sex offender but police will not comment on his past criminal record but they do believe that bracelet is related somehow to the vicious attack this morning. Thats just awful. Deplorable. Reporter this woman lives next door to the 13yearold who was sexually assaulted. She agreed to speak to fox 25 if we did not show her face, morning. All of a sudden they surrounded the house a little after 10 00. Reporter police moved in to arrest 21yearold angel mateo who lived on the second floor of this family for kidnapping and raping a 13yearold girl. The victim reports having been forcibly dragged from the street into a secondfloor apartment. Reporter on her way to school, police say mateo grabbed intersection of boxford
Reporter mateo wears an ankle bracelet and the mayor says he is is not a sex offend every but will not say why hes wearing that bracelet, he does however believe theres a correlation between it and the vicious attack. After two hours the victim was allowed to leave. Distraught, she went to school and reported the assault. Her description helped police with the arrest. The victim provided police with information that led to the capture and are of a angel mateo, 21 years old. Because of this incident, the mayor here to review everyone in the city wearing an ankle bracelet who lives near a school. Mateo is due in court in the morning and facing charges of kidnapping and aggravated statutory rape. Live in lawrence, im john monahan, fox 25 news. Parents in the area are no doubt worried about their own children going to school tomorrow. Ted daniel is live on the street where the girl was taken. Police already have a planned response to keep kids safe in the morning. Yeah, mark and vanessa. O
Hello, everyone. The investigation into this horrific attack is just beginning. Our Team Coverage begins with fox 25s john monahan. John is live outside the Lawrence Police department where this suspect is being held tonight. Mateo, the suspect wears an,le bracelet. He is not a sex offender but police will not comment on his past criminal record but they do believe that bracelet is related somehow to the vicious attack this morning. Thats just awful. Deplorable. Reporter this woman lives next door to the 13yearold who was sexually assaulted. She agreed to speak to fox 25 if we did not show her face, morning. All of a sudden they surrounded the house a little after 10 00. Reporter police moved in to arrest 21yearold angel mateo who lived on the second floor of this family for kidnapping and raping a 13yearold girl. The victim reports having been forcibly dragged from the street into a secondfloor apartment. Reporter on her way to school, police say mateo grabbed intersection of boxford
I want to show you some of the damage. This is east of lawrence expressway, theres 12 businesses in this strip mall, looks like self are destroy seven are destroyed. Its rancho mall. There are still five remaining businesses that they are hoping to save. You can see the live pictures, the smoke is just pluming of it going into the air. When we see the smoke white thats a good sign. They are pouring water on this. Its been this way for three hours. Lets go to video we took earlier in the morning when the fire broke out just before 3 00 a. M. Here on El Camino Real. Were not sure what caused this fire, but it appeared to start in the middle of the strip mall, firefighters from santa clara started attacking it from the inside. It became unsafe. They realized it was old construction and modifications were done to the building. They had limited time. The roof started collapsing. They pulled out and went on defensive mode. While they have been doing this, several owners of the businesses hav
Behind closed curtains. I knew they had dogs because they had the beware of dogs. All this time i never knew that they had a child at all. They never mentioned him. Reporter larry frye now knows his neighbors david and vanessa hall are in jail. I of totally shocked. Like i i was totally shocked. Like i said, i talked to them how many times. They seemed like the nicest people. Reporter detectives start investigating late last month after the halls 17yearold taken to the hospital. The arrest warrants from Longmont Police say he weighed just 88 pounds, skin pale, eyes dark and sunken suffering from severe malnutrition living off junk food and lacking seven basic vitamins and minerals. His condition was consistent with someone who would have been in a concentration camp for several years. Have to be sick, i guess, to do that with your child is the only thing i can come up with. Reporter larry frye is left wondering. Thats terrible that anybody a child. Reporter about the neighbors and the