KENT, Washington — A man accused of attacking women in Shoreline and Bellevue pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree rape and first-degree burglary.
Charles Bluford, 38, is being held on $1.2 million bail at the Kent Regional Justice Center after police said he raped a Shoreline woman in her garage as she arrived home from work last month.
The woman in that attack, who asked that she be referred to as Anne, talked to KIRO 7 last month to warn other women that her attacker was on the loose.
Anne said the attack happened at about 10:30 p.m. on a Saturday as she was arriving home. A man approached her and pulled a gun right in her driveway.
“I look back, and then I saw that guy coming out from the trees,” she said at the time. “He pushed me (into) the wall, and then my head, and I said, ‘What are you doing?’ I said, ‘Don’t kill me.’”
Anne told the man she had AIDS in an effort to stop the attack, and fought back, but the man sexually assaulted her. Another man in a car, who was apparently waiting for the attacker, yelled, “let’s go,” which distracted the man enough so that Anne could flee into her home, she said.
Bluford was also charged Thursday with robbing and sexually assaulting a woman at gunpoint in the garage of her building in Bellevue in January.
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