Two Attempted Rapes Reported in Norcross Area

Two attempted rapes were reported earlier this month at Intown Suites and a barbershop in unincorporated Norcross, according to police reports.

The first reported incident took place May 1 at the Closet Boutique, a barbershop located at 1480 Beaver Ruin Road.

Two women, the victim and witness who were both in their mid-twenties, met with Gwinnett County Police at the QuikTrip down the road around 12:38 a.m. to tell the details of the incident.

The victim told police that she made plans to meet with a man at the barbershop to have sex with him. She and the other woman went to the barbershop, and they met up with the man and the owner of the shop.

She and the man had sex in a room that had a bed in the shop. She told police that he left the room to go to the bathroom, and she felt someone come back into the room and get into bed.

With the lights having been turned off, she thought it was the man she just had sex with. However, when the subject tried to penetrate her, she realized it wasn't him because his arms were bigger than the previous man's.

She told police that she pushed him off and started yelling and cursing at him, who turned out to be the shop owner. She turned the lights on, fixed her clothes and ran out of the shop. After calling police, she and the other woman went to QuikTrip to wait for authorities.

The other woman told police that she had been standing outside the shop with the owner when the two were having sex. When the owner realized he and the woman weren't going to have sex, he told her to get in her car so that things wouldn't looking suspicious. She said she saw the owner go into the shop and her friend running out of the shop later, saying that he forced himself on her.

The victim described the suspect as being 6'2", 180 to 185 pounds, black and 31 years old.

In the other incident took place May 7 around 4 p.m. at . A homeless woman, 29, told police that she had been staying at the 1950 Willow Trail Parkway motel and allowed a white woman named Tasha to stay in her room for one night.

She heard Tasha leave the room while the homeless woman was in the bathroom. When she exited the bathroom, she saw a man sitting at the table.

He told her that Tasha had said they could have sex for some "dope," and he pushed her onto the bed. She told police that he climbed on top of her and demanded that he wasn't going to leave.

During the disagreement, the telephone began to ring and she told him she had to answer the phone. If she didn't, she explained, her family would get worried and call police.

He allowed her to answer her phone, which she used to tell her friend that she was not OK and needed help.

The man left in a taxi five minutes before police arrived.

According to the victim, the suspect was black, wearing a yellow shirt and black shorts, had short black hair, and was 6 feet tall.