Utah man who livestreamed himself breaking into woman’s bathroom is charged with attempting to rape her

A Utah man who livestreamed events leading up to his alleged attempt to rape a woman is facing multiple charges.

According to a probable cause statement, on Sept. 28 the 30-year-old Millcreek man arrived at the home of a Sandy woman just as she was going to get in the shower.

The woman told police that she went in her bathroom, shut and locked the door and began showering when she “suddenly noticed” the man “had entered the bathroom without her consent.”

The woman told the man to leave, police wrote, but he pushed her up against the wall of the shower and tried to rape her. She held him off, and as he turned to leave she noticed he “was recording on Facebook Live.”

The woman told police she followed the suspect to see what he had recorded, but he refused to show her, shoved her away and was about to hit her “with a fist” when her friend intervened. According to the victim, the suspect also told her “that he was going to kill her.”

Sandy police were later able to locate a 24-minute video the suspect had uploaded to Facebook Live. Police wrote that it showed the suspect arriving at the victim's house; walking into the house without knocking; and walking to the bathroom door. The suspect is then seen as he “tinkers with the door before opening it and entering the bathroom.” Police wrote that the suspect then placed a towel over the phone, which he had muted.

The victim told police that she and the suspect had consensual sex two months earlier, and that after that he had twice entered her bathroom while she was in the shower to solicit sex, but she had refused.

Police said that when the man was questioned, he first denied knowing the woman was in the bathroom when he entered, and then admitted he knew the woman was inside but denied he tried to force her to have sex. He also denied recording anything on Facebook Live, according to police, “but when confronted, admitted to taking the video.”

The suspect has been charged in 3rd District Court with attempted rape and attempted forcible sodomy, both first-degree felonies; burglary, a second-degree felony; and assault and threat of violence, both class B misdemeanors. He was booked into the Salt Lake County jail; his bail was set at $150,007.