A career criminal with 14 previous arrests was arrested again over the weekend for allegedly raping a woman and threatening to kill her.
Jamel McIver, 30, is accused of following a 21-year-old woman into her building near West 65th Street and West End Avenue on the Upper West Side around 1am on Saturday.
Once inside, police officers say, he forced the woman into a stairwell, where he carried out the rape and threatened her life before fleeing on foot.
He was reported by his own family members on Sunday, reports the New York Post, and charged Monday with rape, sexually motivated burglary and criminal sex offenses.
McIver has been ordered to remain in prison while his trial continues.
Jamel McIver, 30, was arrested on Sunday for allegedly following a 21-year-old woman into her building and raping her the day before
The suspect will be brought to Manhattan Criminal Court Monday as a perpetrator on charges of rape, sexually assaulted burglary and criminal sex offenses
Authorities claim McIver followed the 21-year-old victim into a building around 1.20am and got into an elevator with her.
He then reportedly “forced her out of the elevator and into a stairwell where he raped her” before pushing the woman back outside and fleeing the area on foot.
“He basically threatened to kill her if she didn’t comply,” a police spokesman told the Post.
As a result, the unidentified woman was taken to a local hospital in stable condition.
Surveillance video taken outside the woman’s home — as well as in the stairwell itself — showed the alleged attacker right after the attack.
It showed the suspect once, despite the pouring rain, taking off his jacket and throwing it over a fence before walking away.
Another snap, later released by police officers, snapped in the stairwell where the woman was undergoing her ordeal, showed the alleged attacker’s face, veiled in his hood, as he is believed to have fled.
On Saturday, police released still images and video of the suspect at the crime scene
He was finally handed over to authorities by his own family members on Sunday
McIver has previously been arrested 14 times, including one in Delaware in 2013 for allegedly hitting his own two-month-old son and another in New York City in 2019 alleging that he got into the bedroom of a sleeping man sneaking teenagers and forcing her to touch his groin.
In that case, authorities say, McIver pulled his vehicle in front of the 16-year-old girl’s building in the Bronx and slipped down a fire escape into her apartment.
McIver is pictured in Bronx Criminal Court in 2019 on a charge of sneaking into a teenage girl’s room and forcing her to touch his genitals
The victim, who told police she didn’t know her attacker, said she woke up to see McIver standing over her bed.
He then said to the teenager, “I want you to touch me. Don’t yell, I have a gun.’
At this point, McIver grabbed the teenager’s hand and placed it on his pants over his genitals.
The teen was eventually able to free herself from his grasp, according to the Post, prompting her attacker to flee her room through the fire escape window.
McIver was arrested just two days later and held on $250,000 bail on his first court appearance.
It remains unclear if he was able to pay, but he was held without bail at a March 2020 trial – only to be released weeks later on his own with a protection order issued for the young girl.
He eventually pleaded guilty to the case in August but was scheduled to return to court on March 29.
In the Delaware case, meanwhile, McIver was charged with first-degree assault and endangering the well-being of a child on December 8, 2013, after police were called to Bayhealth Medical Center in Dover, where his two-month-old baby was diagnosed with ‘multiple bruises and swellings in the abdomen Face.
McIver was charged and is being held on $51,000 bail, but the outcome of the case is unclear.