COOK COUNTY CRIMINAL COURTHOUSE — A man already in custody for a pending rape case was charged Monday with raping a 17-year-old girl at gunpoint in 2013.
According to prosecutors, the girl was walking home from a bus stop on Aug. 2, 2013, when Christopher Douglas drove up alongside her, pulled a gun and forced the girl to perform multiple sex acts.
DNA from a rape kit collected shortly after the attack recently proved to be a positive match to Douglas, now 32, Assistant State's Attorney Bryan Grissman said during a bond hearing Monday.
Prosecutors attributed the three-year delay in filing charges to an ongoing investigation by the Chicago Police Department.
Douglas has been in Cook County Jail, 2700 S. California Ave., since January, when he was charged in a separate rape case. Details of that case were not immediately available Monday, but bail in that case was set at $2 million.
Cook County Judge Peggy Chiampas on Monday set bail in the new case at $1 million — meaning Douglas would need $300,000, or 10 percent of the total bail amount, to go free.
In the 2013 case, the 17-year-old was walking home from a bus stop at 79th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue when Douglas pulled up in a car about 12:15 a.m. and prevented the girl from crossing the street, prosecutors said.
That's when he pulled a black gun and demanded the girl get in the car, according to Grissman.
The teen complied, and Douglas drove the pair to 75th Street and Langley Avenue, where he proceeded to rape the girl and force her to perform oral sex, prosecutors said. Douglas is accused of pointing his gun at the girl's head during the attack.
Douglas then dropped off the girl two blocks away, and she went home to tell her mother what had happened, prosecutors said. A rape kit was collected at Jackson Park Hospital.
DNA from that rape kit was a positive match to Douglas' DNA, prosecutors said Monday.
Douglas, of suburban Hickory Hills, is charged with aggravated kidnapping and aggravated criminal sexual assault.
