A security guard at an apartment complex is accused of forcing a woman into a vacant apartment and sexually assaulting her.Bryce Harper, 34, is facing kidnapping with great bodily harm charges and is jailed without bond, according to jail records.Police were called to Villa Hermosa apartments on the 2600 block of Americare Ct. NW on a shots fired call just before 4 a.m. Sunday. While en route, officers took a call from a woman who said she had been assaulted, according to the criminal complaint.The woman told police she was looking for her cat, and when she asked Harper, one of the complex’s security guards, for help, he forced her into vacant apartment, unzipped his pants and assaulted her.The woman’s son and his friend heard her screams and ran into the apartment and punched Harper, who left the apartment.Police said a gun was fired during the altercation and Harper was the only person with a weapon, though he denied firing, according to the complaint.Harper’s supervisor heard the altercation on the security guard’s radio. The supervisor called police as well.Police said Harper told them he met the woman and they started to flirt. Then they went into a vacant apartment and he was jumped by the woman’s son and his friend, according to the complaint.
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