WASHINGTON — A Maryland jury convicted a Rockville man of breaking into his neighbor’s bedroom and raping her — a crime prosecutors called a woman’s worst nightmare.
A jury found Myles Bowersox, 25, guilty of multiple counts of rape and sex offense of his ground-floor neighbor, whom investigators say he watched from his second-floor apartment.
“Late one night after an argument with his girlfriend at the time, he stayed in the car to cool down, supposedly, and then committed this crime,” said Ramon Korionoff with the Montgomery County States Attorney’s Office.
Bowersox entered the apartment through an unlocked window Nov. 16 of last year, pulled the sleeping woman’s shirt over her head and raped her at knifepoint, court documents said.
“He left his fingerprints inside the home,” Korionoff said.
Those prints matched his profile already in the system from a previous charge for sexual assault, according to court documents.
“Prior to the man leaving … he produced a knife and held it to [the victim’s] stomach telling her if she told anyone, he would come back and kill her,” court documents said.
The victim called 911. Investigators pulled the prints that morning, court documents said.
Bowersox faced one count of rape in the first and second degrees, two counts of sex offense and a charge of home invasion. He’ll be sentenced in December.
