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   ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - An Atlanta man allegedly linked to   
   multiple sexual assaults has been sentenced to 50 years in prison after   
   pleading guilty in two cases, according to prosecutors.   
      
   DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston said Wednesday that 22-year-old   
   Demetrius Samuel Roam pleaded guilty to raping one woman and trying to assault   
   another in October 2020.   
      
   Boston said Roam “has been linked to several additional sexual assaults.”   
      
   The district attorney said Roam would meet women online, then threaten them   
   with a knife unless they performed sexual acts.   
      
   On Oct. 17, 2020, DeKalb County police responded to a call at an apartment   
   complex at 2500 Shallowford Road, listed as The Brooke apartment complex,   
   where Roam lived with a family member, according to prosecutors.   
      
   Boston said a 20-year-old woman told officers she met Roam on social media and   
   agreed to join him at his apartment.   
      
   The woman described being attacked by Roam once she arrived. The woman said   
   Roam “dragged her into an apartment,” where he put a knife to her neck and   
   began strangling her. Boston said he tried to get her to undress as he forced   
   her into a bathroom.   
      
   The victim grabbed the knife and cut her fingers as she struggled with Roam,   
   and was eventually able to push him out of the bathroom.   
      
   “When it sounded like he had left the apartment,” the woman escaped.   
   Investigators said she ran to a neighbor who had already called police after   
   hearing screams.   
      
   Boston said the woman’s purse, credit cards and phone were missing. She said   
   responding officers found blood in the bathroom of the apartment where the   
   assault happened, consistent with the woman’s account.   
      
   On Oct. 23, 2020, DeKalb police responded to another call at the apartment   
   complex. This time, a 22-year-old woman told police she planned to meet a man   
   she had met online at the complex.   
      
   “While walking toward the apartment to meet her date, a man who the victim   
   did not recognize started walking in the same direction,” Boston said.   
      
   Boston said the man, later identified as Roam, put the woman in a chokehold   
   and pushed her into a closet in the apartment complex laundry facility, where   
   he pressed a knife to the woman’s side and raped her. Boston said he then   
   let her out of the    
   closet and she ran away.   
      
   A photograph of Roam was included in a lineup, and both victims identified him   
   as the man who assaulted them. Roam was arrested on Oct. 24, 2020, and has   
   since been held at the DeKalb County Jail without bond.   
      
   Boston said Roam admitted to police that he had sex with the victim in the   
   Oct. 23 attack, but claimed he offered to pay her.   
      
   He at first denied knowledge of the Oct. 17 assault, but eventually said, “I   
   didn’t mean to hurt her, she grabbed the knife,” according to prosecutors.   
   Boston said Roam also admitted to taking the victim’s belongings, and led   
   police to where he    
   had thrown the purse and credit cards behind the apartment. He claimed that he   
   kept the phone.   
      
   During the investigation, DeKalb police said they learned that Roam was a   
   suspect in a 2019 rape case at the complex that had gone cold.   
      
   Boston said Roam has been linked to several other assaults, including: an   
   additional rape at the complex in October 2020; an attempted assault at the   
   complex in August 2019; two rapes in Clayton County in October and December   
   2019; and four rapes in    
   Birmingham, Alabama, between September 2019 and August 2020.   
      
      
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