A Milwaukee man is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in the restroom of the Milwaukee Intermodal Station and attempting to sexually assault another woman on her way home from a bar, according to a criminal complaint.
The complaint states Cephus Tyre Johnson is charged with three counts of second-degree sexual assault and one count of attempted second-degree sexual assault.
Cephus Johnson
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Johnson was set to appear in court Monday for his initial appearance. However, he refused to come inside of the courtroom.
“He has refused to appear with me or without me. He is refusing to come into the courtroom," Attorney Christian Thomas said.
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According to the complaint, a woman reported that she went to the Milwaukee Intermodal Station on Thursday, April 9, around 6:00 a.m. She told police that while using the restroom, a man from another stall, whom she hadn't initially seen, entered her stall and sexually assaulted her.
According to the complaint, security guards reported that they heard screaming, came into the restroom, and one of the security guards said they fired a gunshot. The guards said they yelled at the suspect, he let go of the woman, and he was arrested shortly after that.
He was later identified as Cephus Tyre Johnson.
“It is a very severe incident, it got to the point where one of the security guards had to fire a gun shot," Assistant District Attorney, Gregg Herman said in court.
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The complaint states that in a Mirandized interview, Johnson stated that if he were released, he would kill women.
Court Commissioner Cedric Cornwall ordered a competency exam for Johnson Monday afternoon in court.
According to the complaint, in a separate incident on April 8, a woman says she was walking home from a bar around 11:40 p.m., when she was approached by a man who started walking aggressively towards her. She says the man grabbed her skirt and tried to reach up under it. She says she then tried to fight back, and another person came over and yelled at the suspect to stop. She says the suspect then pushed her to the ground with enough force to cause her shoe to fly off and injure her wrist.
The suspect got away, but the complaint states she later identified him as Cephus Tyre Johnson in a photo array.
Johnson is being held on a $275,000 cash bond.
He is due back in court on May 19th.
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