Gabriel Omogbo Is A Security Guard A Preacher And A Rapist

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ROCKVILLE, Md. (ABC7) — He preached the good word on Sunday mornings, but police say he spent his nights hunting escorts at Montgomery County hotels.

Gabriel Omogbo, 33, of Hyattsville, is charged with a slew of criminal counts, including attempted first degree murder, armed robbery, first degree assault and reckless endangerment.

Police say Omogbo would troll Backpage.com, using the website to broker prostitution deals with women.

Attacks one and two happened at the Best Western Plus along W. Montgomery Avenue in Rockville. There Omogbo allegedly raped and robbed two call girls he had met online.

Attack number three took place at the Radisson Hotel along Research Court in Rockville, near Shady Grove Adventist Hospital.

Investigators say Omogbo met an escort in a third floor hotel room shortly after midnight. Following a round of consensual sex, the 33-year-old emerged from the bathroom holding a kitchen knife. Omogbo ordered the woman to strip naked and then reportedly said, "You are going to die today."

Omogbo went on to beat the woman's face, cut her arms, legs and hands and stole her iPad, pre-paid T-Mobile cell phone and $300. However before fleeing, he told the woman to wash up, and then handed her a cup of cold water to drink. The escort survived the onslaught and called 911.

Forensic technicians collected DNA evidence from each of the hotel rooms where the incidents occurred. Meanwhile detectives began to tedious task of crosschecking the phone number Omogbo used to communicate with the escorts via local pawn records. They got a hit.

Surveillance cameras at the Best Western and Radisson also captured a man around 6 feet, 180 pounds wearing Gucci blue jeans and brown loafers arriving and departing the hotels around the times of the attacks. The man is undoubtedly Omogbo, police say.

According to his Facebook page, Omogbo is a preacher at the Celestial Church of Christ in Riverdale. Photos show him dressed in a white ministry robe preaching from a pulpit as congregants (mostly females) listen attentively. In a Facebook post from June of this year, Omogbo wrote, "I can't but give glory to God for using me for his glory... Lord u [sic] are all to be praised."

Up until his arrest, Omogbo, a former Bowie State University student, was living with his parents in an apartment along the 2600 block of Kirkwood Place in Hyattsville.

"Oh I'm scared," said Jackline Fuentes, who lives floor doors down. "Almost every Saturday all the [young] girls are running around here. We let them go outside by themselves. He could have done anything to [the kids] or any of us, it's terrible."

According to court documents, when away from the pulpit, Omogbo worked as a security officer for Lanham-based company, Security Protective Services.

Investigators have not divulged any potential motives. Omogbo, who will next appear in Montgomery County District Court on January 8, 2016 at 10 a.m., faces life imprisonment.

http://wjla.com/news/crime/preacher-rapes-attempts-to-kill-escorts-in-rockville

Gabriel Omogbo of Hyattsville who has been accused of beating, robbing and raping escorts at hotels across Washington DC

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Gabriel Omogbo of Hyattsville, Maryland, is charged with attempted first degree murder, armed robbery, first degree assault and reckless endangerment.

Police believe that the 33-year-old used the website Backpage.com to find female escorts and arranged to meet up with them.

According to WJLA, the first two attacks happened at the Best Western Plus Hotel in Rockville and on both occasions he is accused of raping and stealing from two women he had met online.

A third attack took place at the Radison Hotel in Rockville, where he is accused of threatening a woman with a knife.

He ordered the woman to take off her clothes before reportedly telling her 'You are going to die today.'

He then beat her, cutting her arms, legs and hands and stole her iPad, cell phone and $300.

The woman survived and told police that before he fled the hotel room offered her a glass of water.

He was arrested after police traced CCTV footage from the hotels as well as collecting DNA evidence from each of the rooms.

CCTV footage showed a man matching Omogbo's description wearing blue jeans and brown loafers entering and leaving the hotels at the time of the attacks.


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According to his Facebook page, he preaches at the Celestial Church of Christ in Riverdale and is a former student at Bowie State University.

He also works as a security guard and currently lives at home with his parents.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...escorts-met-online-hotels-Washington-D-C.html

 

[DaemonSadi]

There were some comments on this that really annoyed me, to the tune of "he doesn't deserve such a harsh sentence they're just sex workers."
Fuck every last person that thinks you are somehow less of a human being because of your job.

 

[lithiumgirl]

Oh I just hope one their brothers is on the inside...yes I do, this is me hoping that. Brothers in Christ, brothers from the street...you know what I mean...BROTHERS!

 

[lithiumgirl]

Piece of shit hypocrite... I hope your God sends your ass to hell where it belongs!

WORD.....is the new AMEN!

 

[JackBurton]

To be fair, we don't know what he preached exactly. Perhaps raping whores doesn't make him a hypocrite, maybe such things weren't out of line with his chosen belief system.

 

[Bearella]

Investigators have not divulged any potential motives.

They need a motive for rape and robbery?