Aurora, Colorado

From the Denver Post of September 23, 2005

Aurora woman fires at intruder who cops think was serial rapist

A man police believe may be a serial rapist preying on women in Aurora and Denver narrowly escaped injury when a would-be victim fired a shot at him as he stood in her bedroom doorway, said Sgt. Rudy Herrera of the Aurora Police Department.

The incident occurred about 9 p.m. Sunday in the Colinas Pointe Apartments in the 9800 block of East Mexico Avenue in Aurora, Herrera said.

The young woman heard a noise in her apartment, and she waited in her bedroom, gun in hand. The would-be attacker fled when the shot was fired, Herrera said.

The description the woman provided differed slightly from others, Herrera said. But it is close enough that detectives are looking at the possibility it might be the same man responsible for at least nine sexual assaults and two or three break-ins in southeast Denver, Arapahoe County and Aurora since November.