Concord police announced an arrest Wednesday in a 2000 sexual assault case involving a paralyzed victim in her Monument Boulevard apartment.
According to a statement released Wednesday by Concord police, the suspect broke into the victim’s apartment on Dec. 6, 2000, and violently attacked her. At the time, detectives collected DNA evidence from the crime scene that was entered into a national DNA database.
Police said the case remained unsolved for years despite multiple leads. The victim has now died.
Recently, police finally received a DNA match, leading to the arrest of 50-year-old Michael Lamonte Evans, now a resident of Los Angeles.
Detectives obtained an arrest warrant for Evans, who was already in custody in Los Angeles County on unrelated charges.
The Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office has charged Evans with forcible rape. Police said he remains in custody in Los Angeles and will be extradited to face the charges. His bail has been set at $1 million.
Police said the support and assistance of the victim’s family and friends was “extremely important in this investigation.”
