Criminal past, new details revealed in College Station random sexual assault case

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - Court documents and public records are revealing a lengthy criminal history for a College Station man identified in a recent sexual assault case.

This is when the survivor told police McNeal sexually assaulted her for five minutes until she was able to separate herself from him. This is when the survivor injured herself working to get the attention of neighbors for help.

Court documents continued detailing events, saying McNeal was spotted using window cleaner to attempt to remove fingerprints from the scene and took the survivor's bedding with him.

Investigators were able to locate numerous pieces of evidence, use witnesses, and a composite sketch thanks to the help of the survivor, to identify McNeal. Officers also used body camera footage from a run-in with McNeal in August to confirm his appearance with the survivor.

When officers made contact with him, McNeal was reportedly living in the same apartment complex as the survivor. He was aware of the window cleaner, something investigators said only someone with knowledge of the incident would know.

McNeal was arrested and faces burglary of a habitation with intent to commit a sexual offense, aggravated sexual assault, and tampering with evidence.

Probable cause documents revealed a lengthy criminal past associated with McNeal including five burglary offenses, two strangulation offenses, domestic battery, home invasion, and grand larceny. Many of those cases can be connected to Las Vegas, Nevada.

According to a 2015 arrest report from KVVU in Las Vegas, McNeal, 18 years old at the time, broke into a family's home with a younger suspect. Inside the home was a 14-year-old protecting his younger siblings and scared McNeal away with his father's rifle.

Court documents show McNeal had an arrest in May of this year but it is unclear where this arrest happened and why he was arrested. This is McNeal's first arrest in Brazos County.

The Rowe Project , a local nonprofit which works to help crime victims face the next step of their lives, has been helping the survivor by starting a GoFundMe and help from the community.

"She does have physical, and of course, emotional needs to be able to take off some time from work. So, we want to help support not only just house bills and normal things but also food... It's really hard to go into public and to have you feel like everyone's looking at you," Rowe Project founder Cedar Clark said, adding she wants to give the woman the ability to order in.

Clark runs the organization with the help of many people, including her husband Caleb and daughter Raine Guedea. The Rowe Project was started 2-and-a-half years ago after they faced their own tragedy.

Now, they are grateful McNeal is in custody. Not only for this survivor but any other victims who have been impacted by McNeal's offenses.

"She's constantly reliving this, explaining it over and over and over. You relive your trauma every time you tell your story, and then also have the fear that this could happen again; that potential that he'll come back. So, I think having him get caught was amazing in that aspect because it took him off the street," explained Clark. "That fear is at least one last fear that she didn't have to worry about anymore."