KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Authorities have arrested a 19-year-old man in the attempted sexual assault and attempted murder of a woman outside a Kissimmee laundromat.
The 18-year-old woman was forced at gunpoint out the back door of Best Laundromat in Kissimmee early Wednesday morning, police said.
Authorities have arrested Isaiah Watts in connection with the case.
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Surveillance video shows a masked man holding a gun and moving toward the victim as she was finishing her laundry.
Police said the woman was forced to walk behind a Sedano's grocery store on North John Young Parkway, where police said Watts tried to sexually assault her.
Police said at some point during the alleged attack, Watts got angry and forced the victim into a dumpster.
The woman resisted and was able to escape, but the suspect opened fire, injuring the woman, police said.
After shooting the woman, police said Watts went to a friend's home. The friends told Channel 9 they're still in shock over what allegedly transpired.
Authorities said Watts was wearing his friend's clothes during the crime, and that friend turned him in.
According to investigators, there was a tarp in the area where Watts tried to rape the woman, but it us unknown whether Watts placed the tarp there.
"We don't know. Again, that's still part of what they're try get to the bottom of. Unfortunately, he didn't cooperate with the investigation, so, these are pieces of the puzzle we're still going to have to put together," said Stacie Miller of the Kissimmee Police Department.
Authorities said Watts might have been casing the shopping center before the incident.
The victim was taken to a hospital and was listed in stable condition.
Watts is charged with attempted murder, false imprisonment, kidnapping and sexual battery. He is being held in the Osceola County Jail without bond.
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