DC man to be sentenced in 2016 Metro rape
WASHINGTON — The man who was convicted of raping a sleeping woman on Metro’s Red Line in 2016 will be sentenced Friday afternoon.
John Prentice Hicks, 41, of Northeast D.C., faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.
He was found guilty in a Montgomery County, Maryland, court of first-degree rape, first-degree sexual offense and second-degree assault in January of this year.
On April 12, 2016, a night-shift nurse told Metro police that she was dozing off on a Red Line train headed toward Glenmont at about 10 a.m. when a man she later identified as Hicks used a knife to threaten her before he raped her and forced her to perform another sex act on the moving train.
Hicks was arrested hours later. His DNA was found on the seats of the train where the woman was assaulted, and was also mixed with hers on a rag in the Metro car.
Police, the victim and Hicks’s mother identified him from Metro surveillance video. Other evidence included a knife with the victim’s blood on it, clothes matching those from the surveillance video and a Metro card whose embedded information places Hicks on the Metro at the time of the attack.
Hicks’s lawyer said that the police arrested the wrong man, contending that Hicks didn’t match the description the victim gave them immediately after the attack. She later testified that she was certain that Hicks is the man who attacked her.
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