Police this week charged a Charlotte man with an unsolved rape that happened almost 20 years.

Carl Rafayette Harrison, 52, was arrested Tuesday afternoon. Police said physical evidence taken from the 1991 crime tie him to the west Charlotte attack.

According to police reports, the assault occurred when a 23-year-old woman was walking along Rozzelle’s Ferry Road and two men offered her a ride.

The woman accepted and later told police the men drove her to a nearby street and raped her at knifepoint. The woman managed to run away, and when the men tried to force her back into the car, her screams drew neighbors outside and the men fled.

Harrison is a registered sex offender from an unrelated 1992 rape conviction, and his criminal history stretches back to the late 1980s, the Charlotte Observer reported.

He has convictions for felony larceny, driving while impaired and passing a worthless check. After serving five years in prison following the ’92 rape conviction, he was also convicted twice of failing to register as a sex offender. In 2007, Harris was sentenced to a year and a half in prison for failing to register.

Police did not release a description of the second suspect.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600.
 

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