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Gerald Davis has been arrested and charged with second degree forcible rape for an August 3, 2008 sexual assault in Asheville. Davis was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia, and is being extradited back to North Carolina. (Photo credit: Asheville Police
Department)
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — A man wanted in connection with a 2008 sexual assault in Asheville has been arrested in Georgia and is now being extradited back to North Carolina.
On August 3, 2008, the Asheville Police Department received a report of a sexual assault in the area of South French Broad Avenue. A sexual evidence kit was collected but wasn’t sent to the state lab for testing due to stringent standards in place for
testing at the time.
DNA FROM APD RAPE KIT POINTS TO WANTED MAN NOW CHARGED WITH RAPE
Almost 10 years later, in March of 2018, after the State Bureau of Investigation changed their minimum standards defining when a sexual assault kit can be tested, the Asheville Police Department began auditing untested sexual assault kits. Of the 573
untested kits, 275 meet the new minimum standards and were sent off for testing.
One of those kits was from the 2008 sexual assault in the South French Broad Avenue area.
DRASTIC INCREASE IN NC SEXUAL ASSAULT KIT SUBMISSIONS SHOWS NEED FOR MORE KIT TEST FUNDING
In November of 2018 APD was notified that the kit from the incident matched a suspect's sample, Gerald Davis, in the FBI's Combined DNA Index System (CODIS). Based on the evidence, APD charged Davis on December 11, 2018, with Second Degree Forcible Rape.
Over two years later, on April 28, 2021, the Asheville Police Department says Davis was located in Atlanta and is now being extradited back to North Carolina.
https://wlos.com/news/local/man-wanted-in-asheville-sexual-assault-cold-case-arrested-in-georgia-gerald-davis
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