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The man is not guilty of gender crimes connected to the East Hollywood Bus Assault



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The 18-year-old man, who was supposed to try to rob and then sexually attacked a woman in a subway bus in Los Angeles, did not think about it on Friday.

Edgar Javier Zepeda is said to A woman attacked at the Mnifepoint On a bus between East Hollywood and Southwest Los Angeles on April 12th.

The incident occurred around 10:15 p.m. near the Sunset Boulevard and the Vermont Avenue. The police said the suspect was sitting next to the victim, a 33-year-old woman, and began talking to her.

At some point the suspect “started swinging a knife and demanding money from her,” said Lapd in an earlier explanation. “When the victim had no money to give the suspect, he sexually attacked her for a few minutes.”

Zepeda supposedly fled from the bus at a stop near Exposure Park.

In addition to the accusations for sex crime, Zepeda is also charged with a robbery in the first degree of a transit passenger. Its deposit is at 1.5 million US dollars.

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