Corona: Agent raped, stabbed -- while showing a house

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There are all manner of weird foreclosure stories out there (mosquitoes, arson, stolen copper, squatters, gangs in vacant houses etc.) but this is the most disturbing story I’ve heard: ‘Authorities say a real estate agent was raped and repeatedly stabbed by a man she was showing a vacant home in Corona.’

More, from CBS-2 in Los Angeles: ‘The woman was savagely injured but managed to fight off her attacker and is expected to survive, Corona police said. Police identified the suspect as Shawn David Yates, 33, of Corona. Yates was arrested Friday night on suspicion of torture, kidnapping, strong-arm robbery, assault with intent to rape and false imprisonment. He was held without bail Saturday at Robert Presley Detention Center, Riverside County sheriff’s officials said.

‘Officers responded to the daylight attack at 10:46 a.m. Friday in the 700 block of Silvestre Court. They found a woman with multiple stab wounds and she was transported to a local hospital.’

Here’s a longer video posted on AOL, which reports that the house where the attack took place is a bank-owned foreclosure, and that the suspect was renting a room in the neighborhood -- from homeowners trying to stave off foreclosure.

Hat tip: P, via email.