Minnesota Black Liar Raped His Girlfriend's Daughter, 17, After Covering His Face, Police Say

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Trevall Devon Coleman has been charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct in connection with the alleged rape. Ramsey County Jail

AMinnesota man has been arrested on suspicion of raping his girlfriend's teenage daughter while her mother was at work.

Trevall Devon Coleman, 26, has been charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct after allegedly assaulting the 17-year-old girl at her home in St. Paul in the early hours of November 30.

Coleman is accused of assaulting the girl while she was lying on her bed after entering the home. The 17-year-old said she woke to find a man with her, but she didn't know who he was because his face was "mostly covered," according to a criminal complaint seen by KSTP.

Coleman is accused of covering the girl's mouth as she tried to cry for help, before punching her head while she struggled to break free and sexually assaulting her. Coleman is also accused of hitting his victim with a box-fan during the attack, reports the Pioneer Press.

The girl called 911 after the suspect fled the scene. She told officers she was at home with her 7-year-old brother while her mother was at work.

When police questioned Coleman about the attack, he claimed he had been at the Mystic Lake Casino, having got a bus from Union Depot in St. Paul. However, police said no buses at the depot go to the casino, and the only one that picks up nearby on University Avenue does not do so at the time Coleman said he made the journey, reports the Pioneer Press.

Surveillance footage from the casino also suggests Coleman was not there the night he says he was.

After a search warrant for the suspect's cellphone was obtained, officers were able to prove via his location data that he was in the house at the time the attack. Following his arrest on December 7, Coleman admitted to entering the home, arguing with the 17-year-old and hitting her. He denied sexually assaulting the teenager.

It was later revealed that the teenager'smother formerly had a protection order against Coleman following a previous incident in which he had forced his way into her home. Coleman was charged with burglary, terroristic threats and felony domestic assault in connection to that incident.

Coleman has previously been convicted with a string of felony domestic violence offenses, as well as car theft and drug possession convictions.

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The man convicted of kidnapping a woman from Uptown Minneapolis, raping her and driving her to a remote location in Scandia was sentenced Thursday in Hennepin County District Court to life in prison without parole.

Deonte Lawson, 24, of Minneapolis, was found guilty by a jury of two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct — one through fear of great bodily harm and the other through force with an accomplice — and one count of kidnapping.

After a two-week trial, a jury returned the guilty verdicts on May 9 after three hours of deliberation.

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Undated courtesy photo, circa May 2019, of Deonte Darnell Lawson. Lawson, convicted of kidnapping a woman from Uptown in Minneapolis, raping her and driving her to a remote Washington County location was sentenced to life in prison without parole, the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office announced Thursday, May 16, 2019. Deonte Lawson, 24, of Minneapolis, was found guilty by a jury of two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct one through fear of great bodily harm, and the other through force with an accomplice and one count of kidnapping. He had been indicted by a grand jury under state statutes that allow for the life sentence for particularly heinous sex crimes or a pattern of sex crimes. (Courtesy of the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office)

At Thursday’s sentencing, an impact statement written by the woman Lawson attacked was read in court. In her statement, she detailed the damage Lawson had caused her, including “taking away her drive and outgoing personality and replacing it with anxiety, post-traumatic stress syndrome and other physical and emotional scars,” according to a news release from the Hennepin County attorney’s office. She told the judge to give him the maximum penalty.

“I am smarter, braver and stronger than Mr. Lawson ever counted on,” she wrote in her statement. “I am a survivor. And I know I am not his first victim, but I am going to make damn sure I am his last. Mr. Lawson is nothing more than a monster. I looked him in the eyes during my testimony and I saw the cold, evil, lifelessness I remember seeing in October 2017.”

The woman was getting something out of the trunk of her car parked outside her Uptown apartment late Oct. 15 or early Oct. 16 when Lawson, Darrius Freeman and Wayne Armstrong forced her into the back seat of her car at gunpoint.

They used her credit cards to pay for food at White Castle and then took her to a secluded wooded area, where they took turns sexually assaulting her, according to the criminal complaint filed in Hennepin County District Court.

Afterward, as they made their way toward Washington County, the woman feared for her life and convinced the driver that they needed to stop for gas, the complaint said.

When they stopped to refuel at a gas station on Manning Trail in Scandia, she ran barefoot from the vehicle into nearby woods.

Though one of her attackers followed, he eventually gave up, and the three drove away, the complaint said.

Tenants who lived above the gas station let the woman use their cellphone to call for help.

Based on her description of her assailants and surveillance video captured at locations where her stolen credit cards were used, police were able to produce photos of the men involved.

The DNA of Lawson, Armstrong and Freeman connected them to the crime.

Armstrong, who was 17 at the time of the crime, pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against Lawson, but was not called. He will be sentenced as an adult Friday and is expected to get 12 years in prison.

Freeman, who was 16 at the time, also pleaded guilty and did testify against Lawson. He will be sentenced at the end of the month and also will receive 12 years.

https://www.twincities.com/2019/05/16/man-sentenced-to-life-for-uptown-minneapolis-abduction-rape-woman-escaped-in-washington-county/