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A DNA match led Columbus police yesterday afternoon to arrest a man at his South Linden home in the rape of a 13-year-old girl who was assaulted while waiting for a school bus. <\/p>\n
Antonio J. Fillmore, 36, of 2321 Gerbert Rd., is charged with two counts of rape. Columbus police accuse him of the Tuesday morning sexual assault of the girl behind a vacant house in North Linden. <\/p>\n
Fillmore was in the Franklin County jail last night and is scheduled to appear this morning in municipal court. <\/p>\n
The girl, a Columbus middle-school student, was approached by a man about 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday, as she waited alone for her school bus near the corner of Dresden Street and Myrtle Avenue. <\/p>\n
She told police that the man a stranger to her struck up a conversation and then forced her behind the nearby vacant house at 1452 Myrtle Ave. <\/p>\n
Fillmore, who is 5-foot-8 and 255 pounds, hit the girl in her face and grabbed her by her mouth while he raped her, court documents say. <\/p>\n
The key to breaking the case was DNA evidence from the crime scene that was tested by the state Bureau of Criminal Investigation. The DNA matched a sample taken from Fillmore, Columbus police said. <\/p>\n
All people convicted of felonies, and anyone arrested on a felony in Ohio since 2011, are required to have their DNA entered in a state database, said Dan Tierney, a spokesman with the state attorney generals office. <\/p>\n
Tierney said that when a case is considered to be urgent, the state bureau will expedite the DNA analysis. <\/p>\n
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