CLERMONT, Florida— Two more charges were added Wednesday, increasing his bond to $100,000, to a man accused of raping an 18-year-old student last week as she walked to her bus stop.
Brian Terick Wilkerson, 18, of Clermont is facing a charge of attempted kidnapping and assault with intent to do violence, in addition to sexual battery, kidnapping and false imprisonment charges he was originally arrested for on Monday by Lake County Sheriff’s Office detectives.
Wilkerson is accused of raping a woman as she walked to her school bus stop at Carrington at Four Corners apartments in unincorporated Clermont around 6:20 a.m. Jan. 19. Wilkerson covered the teenager’s mouth, dragged her to the third floor of a building and forced her to perform a sex act, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Later the same night, another woman reported a man grabbed her from behind and covered her mouth, she screamed, and the man ran away. A third victim told LCSO she arrived home from work at 9:22 p.m. and as she walked to her door, she heard footsteps behind her. She said a black male was running towards her with his hands up and she screamed, causing him to run away.
On Jan. 20, the apartment complex provided high-definition video from the incident involving the first victim and detectives were able to track the suspect’s movements in a Suzuki Forenza that is registered to Wilkerson, who lives just a half of a mile from the complex where all three incidents took place. Other videos show the Forenza was in the complex during each attack, the affidavit states.
LCSO began surveillance on Wilkerson Thursday and followed him back to the apartment complex where they observed him driving through and parking several times. He “appeared to mimic the movements of females observed walking in the apartment complex,” the affidavit states.
Wilkerson was taken into custody Monday and remains in the Lake County Jail on $100,000 bond.
