>> 10 years after a crime spree across our area this suspected serial rapist is now locked up.
We say that they’ve linked 34
year-old Brandon young to the
rates of in many as 8 women.
>> Investigators used a federal
grant for rape kit testing to
connect his DNA to the crimes.
We have multiple I team
investigators covering this
case tonight, Vic micolucci is
taking a closer look at how
detectives cut the man
and that joins us live from
Atlantic in current in
Boulevard where police say one
of the crimes happened.
>> Yeah, this is the wal-mart parking lot there are several other businesses here and in
2008. A woman reported that she
met a man while she was working
at a nearby drive-thru.
He offered to give her a ride
home, but instead he took her
to this parking lot and that is
where he violently attacked and
raped her
and that is just one of several
assaults now linked to Brandon
young.
>> So we are talking about a
potential of a victim’s
Jacksonville’s the sheriff says
a predators off the streets
tonight after years of getting
away with violent rapes,
34 year-old Brandon young and
now behind bars arrested at his
home in Middleburg after police
and prosecutors used to DNA.
>> To link him 2 years old
cases from 2006 to
2009 these cases.
>> Absent this
And initiative would not have
been possible. The state
attorney and sheriff got a
grant to test old rape kits new
technology linking several
assaults together.
>> In connecting them to
Young’s brother who was in a
police DNA database detectives
then determined young was the
culprit and got a warrant to
take a DNA sample.
It was enough to make an arrest
to the DNA does not lie you can
do all you want to do to try to hide a coverup news 4 Jax crime and safety analyst Ken
Jefferson is a former
sex-crimes detective would seem
to many people that this case
went cold is this overall
really good police work that
they did it the diligence said
the put into the case
the I team obtaining reports
from 4 of the incidents in one
a woman claims a man jumped
into her car in a dark parking
lot burned her with a cigarette
and then
raped her in another a woman
says she was attacked after
meeting a man at a night club,
a 3rd incident happened at a
walmart parking lot
after a woman met the man at a
nearby fast food joint and the
4th when a woman says
a man grabbed her by the hair
pulled her into his car and
then raped her at gunpoint.
We went to Young’s Middleburg
home for comment today family
members slammed the door in my
face.
>> Then screamed obscenities.
>> And we have been looking into Young’s past history. We learned that for about a
year he worked
on a part-time basis for
Baptist health we did hear from
a spokesperson this morning.
She said that he was terminated
as soon as the allegations came
to life to light, I
also confirmed that he did
spend some time last year in 20
18 during the football season
as a volunteer
at Saint John’s country Day
school he did go through a
background check and they sent
out a letter to parents to
notify them of the connection.
This afternoon. We’re live on
the south side of that
micolucci Channel 4 the
local station.
>> So Vick where we started ice
and could be connected to 8
cases of rape are there more
victims out there are police
are looking for.
>> Can’t when we talked to the sheriff in the state attorney this morning. They said yes
that is definitely a
possibility. We know that
sometimes these violent
sexual-assault go unreported
that’s why they’re putting this
out there
to the news to the public if
you have any information about
young or any cases
come forward you can call the
detectives there number
6, 3, 0, 0 500 you can also
call first coast crime stoppers
if you want to remain
anonymous. They are asking for
any information no matter how
small that could potentially
help them with this case that