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   From: kamala.harris.encourages@black.crime   
      
   The victim who claims she was raped by Eliza Fletcher's alleged killer also   
   filed a lawsuit against the owners of the apartment complex where it happened.   
      
   MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The victim who claims she was raped by Cleotha Henderson   
   (aka Abston), Eliza Fletcher's alleged killer, has filed an amended lawsuit   
   against the city of Memphis.   
      
   The original suit was filed Sept. 20, 2022, for failing to investigate the   
   2021 case and as a result, failing to prevent Fletcher's death. The amended   
   lawsuit was filed Oct. 3.   
      
   She has also filed suit against the Lakes of Ridgeway apartments and its   
   owners/management, saying they failed to provide adequate security which   
   allowed for the rape to happen.   
      
   Original lawsuit against the City of Memphis   
   The original lawsuit against the city said the Memphis Police Department   
   failed "to investigate the rape adequately and with due diligence, and the   
   failure to utilize existing evidence on a timely basis to effect an arrest of   
   the man who kidnapped and    
   raped (the victim) in time to stop him from committing at least one other   
   violent felony."   
      
   According to the lawsuit, the victim met with Henderson after texting with him   
   for about a month after they met on a dating app. The man the victim knew as   
   "Cleo" was Cleotha Henderson, the suspect in the Sept. 2, 2022 abduction and   
   murder of Eliza    
   Fletcher.   
      
   The lawsuit said when the victim met "Cleo", she was allegedly kidnapped at   
   gunpoint before she was allegedly raped in a car outside a vacant apartment.   
      
   Immediately afterward, the lawsuit said the victim sought medical attention   
   for the alleged rape and she reported the crime. That's when the rape kit was   
   gathered.   
      
   Officers from the Memphis Police Department were assigned to investigate the   
   case and the officers who processed the crime scene "took no physical evidence   
   directly from the crime scene itself," the lawsuit said.   
      
   A few months after the victim was allegedly raped, she called the Memphis   
   Police Department asking for an update and she was told that "there was no   
   updated information to give her," the lawsuit said.   
      
   The TBI's DNA analysis from that rape kit returned as a match to Henderson's   
   as Fletcher's murder was being investigated, the lawsuit said.   
      
   The lawsuit said, "Cleotha Abston should and could have been arrested and   
   indicted for the aggravated rape of (the victim) many months earlier, most   
   likely in the year 2021, based on all of the information set forth in the   
   preceding paragraphs of this    
   Complaint, and the abduction and murder of Eliza Fletcher would not have   
   occurred."   
      
   ABC24 reached out to the city of Memphis and the Memphis Police Department for   
   comment. Both the city and Memphis police said they will not comment on   
   pending litigation, as is standard practice.   
      
   Amended lawsuit filed   
   The amended lawsuit filed on Oct. 3 not only claims police had enough   
   information to arrest Henderson months earlier based on the victim's   
   information on a first name, a phone number, and the dating app - it said MPD   
   also spoke with the suspect's    
   girlfriend.   
      
   The amended portion said Henderson's girlfriend told investigators the day   
   after the rape that he had access to two cars, one of which matched the   
   description of the car the victim gave them. According to the amended lawsuit,   
   the girlfriend also gave    
   police the suspect's full name, and where he had moved to, which was near   
   where the rape occurred.   
      
   The lawsuit claims MPD brought the victim in for a lineup, and showed her 10   
   photos, but the one of the suspect was at least a decade old. According to the   
   lawsuit, MPD said they would need a more recent photo for her to look at, but   
   failed to get one.   
      
      
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