Suspect in rapes of two girls approached them as they left school

A man suspected in the rapes of two 17yearold girls approached them as they left their Aurora high school and convinced them to get into his car, his arrest affidavit states.

Aurora police arrested Ble Ghislain Kore, 24, on Tuesday after DNA tests matched him to a sample taken from at least one of two teenage girls who said they had been raped by an unknown man, according to Kore’s arrest affidavit.

Both attacks were reported to have begun near the joined campus of Overland High and Prairie Middle schools.

Kore appeared Wednesday afternoon in Arapahoe County District Court where a judge set his bond at $1 million, said Vikki Migoya, a spokeswoman for the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office.

Police believe that the assaults did not happen on school grounds but in the general vicinity, Aurora police spokeswoman Crystal McCoy said Wednesday.

The first girl to report a sexual assault said she was walking home from school just before 3 p.m. Sept. 13 in the 2100 block of South Vaughn Way when a black sedan pulled up. The girl said the man inside, whom she did not know, told her that he knew who she was and had someone “watching” her mom.

The teenager told police that she got in the car because she worried something would happen to her mom if she did not.

The man then drove to the guest parking lot of the nearby apartment complex where the girl lived, according to an arrest affidavit. He then held down her arms and raped her, the affidavit states, even as she tried to kick him and told him to stop.

The man then released the girl, who called her mom and notified police. The girl then underwent a sexual assault examination at the Medical Center of Aurora.

On Sept. 15, a second 17yearold girl said she had been raped by an unknown man while leaving school on the same afternoon.

After first reporting that the rape took place around 3:45 p.m. at the school, the second teenager in a later interview with police said that the man pulled up next to her in a black sedan as she was leaving school about 4:30 p.m. Sept. 13. She said the man in the car told her he was a senior at the same school and asked her to get in the car. She initially refused, but later got in.

She told police that the man then drove her to a parking lot of an apartment complex near Parker Road and then raped her inside the car, according to the affidavit.

The man then drove her to mailboxes near her house, where she got out, the affidavit states.

Investigators found Sept. 13 video surveillance from the school that showed a girl get into a black sedan, like the one described by the two teenagers, about 4:30 p.m. that day.

Forensic scientists with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation on Monday matched at least one sample of DNA collected from the sexual assault exams with a sample from Kore, who has previous criminal convictions.

Kore also has a tattoo on the side of his neck that matched the description that one of the girls gave of her attacker. He also owned a black Volkswagen that matched the description of the attacker’s car as given by the teen agers.

Both girls told police they had never met or heard of Kore before.

Aurora police arrested Kore about 10 a.m. Tuesday near the intersection of South Havana Street and East Alameda Avenue near Expo Park, the affidavit states.

Kore told police that he had picked up one teenage girl near the school after she had asked for a ride. He said that the girl later performed oral sex on him, but it was consensual. He denied any interaction with a second girl.

Investigators asked that anybody else who may have been sexually assaulted in connection to the two reports call Sgt. Rudy Herrera at 3037396250.

Kore’s next court appearance is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Oct. 22, where prosecutors will read the official charges against him.