Cape Girardeau man faces charges in alleged rape, burglary

Sexual assault and burglary charges were upheld in court Thursday against a Cape Girardeau man for an incident that occurred in early April.

Shane A. Walker, 25, faces charges of first-degree burglary, sexual assault, attempted deviant sexual assault and one count of theft.

Cape Girardeau County Associate Circuit Judge Gary Kamp bound the case over for circuit court Thursday afternoon after Walker waived his right to a preliminary hearing where the state would have to provide evidence linking him to the crime.

Kamp set Walker's next court appearance for 9 a.m. May 18.

Walker is being held at the Cape Girardeau County Jail on a $50,000 cash-only bond.

According to a probable-cause statement by Cape Girardeau Police Department Detective. Debi Oliver, Walker was known by the victim, who spotted a black car parked outside her residence early on the morning of April 4.

The woman and a friend who was visiting noticed the car outside her residence when her dog began growling, the statement said.

Minutes later, they saw the lock turn and the door began to open as the intruder started to enter, the statement said.

Both the victim and her friend leaned on the door and pushed it shut, then saw the black car leave a few minutes

later.

They got into separate vehicles and left, according to the sworn statement.

The victim told police she drove around for a while but didn't have anywhere to go and eventually returned to her apartment building to go to sleep.

About a half an hour later, the victim told police she was awakened by Walker standing over her bed.

"She repeated how terrified she was of him," Oliver wrote in the sworn statement.

She told police she was too afraid to tell him to "get out," so she just curled into a fetal position, the statement said.

He then raped her and went downstairs, the statement said.

The victim told police she could hear him "ransacking" her apartment. When she went downstairs, there were two men she didn't know sitting in her living room.

She told police that Walker took her wallet out of her purse, asking for $20 in gas money and that she gave it to him hoping he would leave.

When she checked her wallet after the men left, she realized that $95 of the money she'd made in tips as a waitress was gone.

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