FORT MYERS, Fla. — NBC2 spoke with a woman who was dating the man accused of raping his Uber passenger.
She did not want to show her face on camera but wanted to share how she was deceived.
Torres went by the name of Alex for the two years this woman knew him.
“He is a dad, a dad with a 12-year-old daughter that looks happy. I didn’t think he was a bad dude,” she said.
Her thoughts changed when she saw his mugshot and the surveillance video of Torres at the Ashlar Apartments.
Deputies said he followed his passenger and put on a mask before raping her.
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“I know exactly what he looks like and hows his arms are, how he walks; that was him,” she said.
The woman found out while at work during her lunch break.
“It really sent chills through my spine he literally just text me that Sunday. That was literally hours. In a matter of hours,” she said.
Just hours after deputies say Torres raped a woman at her apartment of Daniels parkway, he asked to see her.
“It’s bone-chilling cause what were your plans with me,’ she said.
Now this woman is in disbelief the man she let into her life was capable of this.
“He had like two different personalities like a Ted Bundy remember, he had a wife, and his wife didn’t know anything about anything that’s exactly how it feels,” she said.
The woman also had no idea Torres has a lengthy criminal history.
NBC2 obtained a list of his prior offenses from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office:
- 10/9/01: Boston PD: Breaking and entering a motor vehicle
- 11/14/01: Boston PD: Receiving stolen motor vehicle
- 11/10/04: Boston PD: Poss of burglary tools
- 3/18/05: Boston PD: Operating MV without a license
- 2/27/08: Boston PD: Unarmed breaking and entering
- 3/12/08: Malden PD: Robbery (armed)
- 4/16/09: Norfolk County SD Dedham: Traffic in controlled substance
- 9/2/09: Norfolk County SO Dedham: Robbery (armed and masked)
A judge set Torres’s bond at $500,00.
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