Suspect captured after rape of 74-year-old woman in Nashville

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A 46-12 months-old man has been arrested for the rape of a lady in her 70s at her residence in a community off Bowling Avenue powering Elmington Park final weekend.

Metro police documented Phillip Hayes has been charged with aggravated rape, aggravated kidnapping and aggravated burglary.

Hayes has been in custody considering that Tuesday early morning on costs of assaulting an officer, car theft, resisting arrest and possession of meth, in accordance to Metro police. He was considered to be a suspect in Saturday’s rape scenario shortly following his arrest and was questioned at the downtown detention centre Tuesday night.

Through questioning, Hayes reportedly acknowledged a publicly unveiled surveillance picture of a person carrying environmentally friendly shorts captured by a surveillance digital camera in the neighborhood was in fact him. Main Drake explained when he was requested about the rape, Hayes ended the interview.

Hayes refused to comply with a lookup warrant for a DNA sample at the jail, in accordance to Metro police. He eventually complied just after staying taken to Metro Common Clinic Wednesday morning. The DNA sample was eventually taken to the MNPD criminal offense lab, in which Metro law enforcement explained researchers verified Hayes’s DNA matches proof recovered in the rape situation.

Hayes was taken into custody after a property owner in the 900 block of Gale Lane named 911 at 4:20 a.m. Tuesday to report a gentleman who had rung the doorbell for a number of minutes was heading by their Jeep parked outside the house.

Responding officers identified footprints likely again toward the resident’s property up to the again doorway. Surveillance cameras show the gentleman, later on determined as Hayes, walking all over on the property.

Officers seemed for the guy in the darkness but could not locate him. But they did find a vacant black minivan in a ditch partially blocking Gale Lane. Metro police described the van was a rental and was stolen from an 11th Avenue North resort on July 22.

Officer Michael Hodges had the van towed and just following the wrecker drove off, Hayes arrived strolling up to officers all over 5:25 a.m. Officer Hodges stopped Hayes, recognizing him from the surveillance footage he experienced observed a small though previously and questioned him the place he was likely.

In accordance to a release, Hayes claimed to be out for a wander and stated he lived in Brentwood. When Officer Hodges tried to detain Hayes and handcuff him, he started flailing his arms and took off functioning. Officer Hodges and Officer Alex Perry apprehended Hayes at 6:55 a.m. Tuesday in the 2500 block of Eighth Avenue South soon after he emerged from a wood line.

“We know of no authentic cause for Hayes to have been on Gail Lane Tuesday morning. I consider that citizen’s phone at 4:20 a.m. set in motion a reaction for midtown Hills officers that took a incredibly hazardous person off our avenue,” stated Chief Drake.

It is not obvious how very long Hayes has been in the Nashville space.

“I know that today’s charges appear as a relief to residents in the community surrounding Boling Avenue who understandably were being shaken and scared from this horrendous criminal offense,” discussed Chief Drake.

“I want to thank the victim for doing the job intently with us, detectives in our exclusive victims divisions for subsequent potential customers in the circumstance all through the weekend and this 7 days, and researchers at our criminal offense laboratory who had been referred to as in about the weekend to get started examination. I want to specific my appreciation this morning to the house owner on Gail Lane who named 911 at 4:20 am. Tuesday to report that a person experienced rung the doorbell various instances and was heading via the family’s Jeep parked outside the house. It was that telephone contact that ultimately led to Phillips Hayes’s arrest,” mentioned Chief Drake.

Hayes has no arrest history in Nashville prior to Tuesday. Metro police documented he was arrested in Lebanon in Could on prices of driving without the need of a license, vehicle theft and misdemeanor drug possession. He is a convicted felon out of Virginia on prices of cocaine and assault. He also has arrest histories in Florida, where he was convicted of indecent publicity, and in Kentucky.