DALLAS _ A 15-year-old has been arrested in connection with three Dallas rapes, and police are investigating whether he was involved in the slaying of a 23-year-old woman at her Far North Dallas apartment this week.
The juvenile suspect was taken into custody without incident around 7 p.m. Thursday, police said, and booked into the Henry Wade Juvenile Center. His name is not being released because of his age.
The 15-year-old invoked his right to remain silent after his arrest, police said.
In each of the Dallas rapes, the attacker knocked on the victim's door and asked for work or money. He then sexually assaulted the women after forcing his way into their homes and brandishing a weapon.
The most recent attack took place Oct. 30 at the Wildflower Apartments in the 6000 block of Pineland Drive in northeast Dallas. A child home at the time of the assault was unharmed, police said.
The previous two assaults took place at apartments less than a mile apart in Far North Dallas _ on Sept. 12 in the 14200 block of Dallas Parkway and Sept. 19 in the 14100 block of Montfort Drive. Both victims were in their 20s.
Police said that DNA and physical evidence from those crimes link them to two similar sexual assaults committed in Bossier City, La., in March and April.
Additionally, police said Thursday night that they were working to determine whether the attacks were connected to a slaying not far from where the Far North Dallas rapes occurred. Authorities found Maria Ezquerro, 23, dead from "homicidal violence" at her apartment in the 5400 block of Peterson Lane around 9 p.m. Tuesday.
