Parolee accused in attack gets new attorney
A Boulder man accused of attacking and sexually assaulting a woman after breaking into her workplace in 2021 had his request for a new attorney granted.
Randy James Raygor, 32, is charged with two counts of sexual assault, second-degree assault and first-degree burglary.
At a hearing last week, Raygor’s attorney
Megan Stewart told Boulder District Judge Norma
Sierra that Raygor was asking that she be removed from the case.
Raygor’s motion was heard by Boulder District Judge Patrick Butler on Thursday in a hearing that was not open to the public as it contained privileged information.
But the Boulder District Attorney’s Office on Friday confirmed that Butler granted Raygor’s request for a new attorney to be appointed. He is now set for a status conference on June 9.
Raygor remains in custody at the Boulder County Jail on $500,000 bond.
According to an arrest affidavit, Boulder police dispatchers received a 911 call at 3 a.m. July 5. The dispatcher said it sounded like a man and a woman fighting, and that it sounded like a possible sexual assault.
Boulder police responded to the location of the call, which was redacted in the affidavit, and found a woman calling for help. Officers said the woman was wearing only a tank top, had a swollen left eye, a bloody mouth and several abrasions.
The woman told police she was working on call by herself in a nearby building when she saw a man sitting outside about 10 p.m. July 4. When she asked him what he was doing, the man said he was waiting for a ride.
At midnight, the woman said she checked to make sure all of the doors at the business were locked and went to sleep. About 3 a.m., she heard a loud sound and woke up to find the man she had seen earlier was now inside the building.
According to the affidavit, the woman said the man then attacked her, and told her, “I want to rape you.” The woman said the man was able to pull off her shorts and underwear and digitally penetrated her. She said he also hit her in the face about five times.
The woman was able to activate
the emergency function on her phone to dial 911 before the man threw it away, and she was also able to gouge at his eyes with her thumbs.
The woman said that when she was able to get free, the man took off and she was able to track down responding officers.
Other officers on foot in the area tracked down a man matching a description of the suspect, later identified as Raygor. The woman confirmed Raygor was the man who attacked her when she viewed him from the back of a patrol car.
Online court records show Raygor was on parole for a 2018 felony menacing conviction at the time of the incident.