An East Ridge man, along with his mother, were charged on Tuesday with various crimes in regard to an incident stemming from August of last year.

According to Hamilton County Jail booking reports, Tyrell Wilson, 25, of a Bennett Road address, was booked into the facility on Jan. 13 on charges of Aggravated Rape, Aggravated Sexual Battery, Aggravated Kidnapping, and Custodial Interference. He is being held in jail under a $50,000 bond, and is set to appear in East Ridge Municipal Court on Jan. 19.

His mother, 46-year-old Demetrice Wilson, was charged with Conspiracy to Commit Aggravated Kidnapping, Conspiracy to Commit Custodial Interference, and Resisting Arrest.

According to an affidavit of complaint, police were dispatched to Bennett Road and South Seminole Drive on a report that a Black woman was running down the street being chased by a Black man. A resident told officers that the woman had run out of a residence at 3584 Bennett Road and that both people returned inside the house.

When officers knocked on the door at the Bennett Road address, Tyrell Wilson answered and there was a female behind him crying and hyperventilating. Wilson told the police that the female was his sister and that nothing had happened.

The female was identified and it was determined she was a minor. She told officers that Wilson had assaulted her that evening as she emerged from a shower. She said the suspect strangled her and she retreated to a bedroom. According to the female, Wilson retrieved a knife and attempted to stab her. She then fled the house in the nude and knocked on a nearby door before Wilson caught here and took her back to the house.

Further investigation revealed that the juvenile had run away from home in June. The juvenile told police that she had been repeatedly raped almost daily by Wilson. 

Police executed a search warrant on August 11 at the Wilson’s Bennett Road house looking for knives, bodily fluids, bedding, pillows, blankets, and clothing.

According to the affidavit, Police met with paramedics who had responded to the Wilson home. The paramedics told officers that Demetrice Wilson represented herself as the juvenile victim’s legal guardian and did not want the victim transported to the hospital.

Explaining the five-month time lapse until the suspect was jailed, Assistant Chief Josh Creel said that Tyrell Wilson was charged with Aggravated Assault on the day of the incident, and a temporary order of protection was put into place.

“Investigative work and lab results garnered the additional charges that were suspected but not able to be levied at the time,” Chief Creel said in a text to East Ridge News Online.