A Northern Virginia man raped a woman inside her business last week, then attempted to sexually assault a student on a college campus the next day, Fairfax County police said.
Kevin Lopez-Altan, 24, of Annandale showed up at an Annandale business before it opened Wednesday and held a 59-year-old woman captive, police said.
“He made several efforts to get inside,” Chief Kevin Davis said. “They were thwarted by our victim the first couple of occasions, but then he successfully forced his way inside that business and that’s where he spent the next several hours attacking again and again and again.”
The victim eventually escaped and called police. Her attacker was gone by the time police arrived, but he left evidence, including fingerprints.
Fairfax County detectives developed Lopez-Altan as a suspect and learned they weren’t the only ones looking for him.
“Northern Virginia Community College Police Department was working a separate …