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Man accused of attacking 2 elderly women may have ties to other crimes

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — New court records revealed that a man currently in jail, accused of breaking into the west Charlotte apartment of two elderly women and attacking them, could be tied to other, similar incidents.

Police arrested Tai’Quan Rodgers earlier this month after DNA evidence pointed to him as the suspect in a break-in and sexual assault on Farmer Street in west Charlotte in December, according to court documents.

The evidence also pointed to Rodgers as the man who was peeping into the bathroom and bedroom of a 63-year-old woman in north Charlotte in September, according to documents.

“I don't know if they were trying to get in the window, and I came home,” the woman told Eyewitness News on Monday.

She discovered a chair propped outside her bathroom window, and several days later, found the same chair under her bedroom window.

Police found a fingerprint on the chair that belonged to Rodgers, but they did not have enough evidence to arrest him in the case, according to a search warrant.

Police obtained one of the warrants to search Rodgers’ cellphone to see if he was at the location of half a dozen other, similar incidents since last summer.

The victim of the peeping incident in north Charlotte said she is relieved that he is in jail, but she is still wary.

“I do feel safer, but I will continue to look out and watch around and call the police if I need to,” she said.

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