Man found guilty in second rape, robbery
A 27-year-old man charged with terrorizing women in February and March 2014 was convicted this week of a second rape.
A jury Thursday found Deandrey Peterson guilty of entering a woman’s residence between March 8, 2014, and March 11, 2014. He was convicted of aggravated rape, robbery, burglary and possessing a firearm during a felony.
Peterson was also convicted in May of entering a woman’s apartment during the early morning of March 27, 2014, armed with a silver handgun at The Abington Apartments near Raleigh LaGrange Road and Covington Pike in Raleigh. He told the 30-year-old woman to cover herself and her child while he looked through her belongings. He then forced the woman into her living room and raped her.
He was sentenced to 30 years in that case.
Peterson is a defendant in four pending cases that include charges of rape, attempted rape, burglary and robbery. He showed a common scheme in his attacks, Assistant District Attorney Abby Wallace said in court documents.
“The similarities between the execution of these crimes by unlawful entry into the victims’ apartments, forcing into the bedroom, blindfolding or covering the face of the victims, and threatening with the handgun, each indicate the intent for a unique and signature scheme to rape and/or rob these victims,” she wrote.