Dallas News
December 10, 2013
A 19-year-old man has been accused of attacking two mentally disabled brothers and raping one of them Wednesday at the DART Lake Highlands station, according to police documents.
DART police say Kristopher Erin Miles attacked the two minutes after snatching another man’s cellphone on a train.
According to arrest warrant affidavits, a man told a DART officer at Mockingbird Station that Miles grabbed his phone and ran out of a train at the Lake Highlands station. Surveillance video captured Miles sprinting out of a train and the Lake Highlands station at 5:24 a.m. Wednesday, police said.
Within minutes, Miles reappeared in DART surveillance video. He played with a cellphone while lying in the grass, police said.
Police said Miles later walked over to the brothers after watching them briefly. Video shows him burning one of the brother’s faces with a lit cigarette, police said.
Miles then grabbed the other brother, demanded money and struck him in the head. Miles got $6, according to the documents. He then took both men to a bus shelter out of the cameras’ view, police said.
The brothers told police that Miles sexually assaulted one of them after ordering the other to turn around and not look. The brothers also told police that Miles threatened to take them to southeast Oak Cliff to kill them.
Miles then hopped on a DART Blue Line train. A camera monitor spotted Miles at DART’s West End Station. Miles got on another train but was detained at Union Station. When officers searched Miles, they found the first robbery victim’s phone.
Miles has been charged with injury to a disabled person, theft from a person and aggravated robbery. He has not been charged with sexual assault.
DART spokesman Mark Ball said he didn’t know if the victim who alleged the rape allowed a rape kit examination.
Miles remained in Dallas County Jail on Thursday in lieu of $150,000 bail. His attorney declined to comment.
Miles had been released from the jail about a month ago after serving time on a misdemeanor assault charge, court records show.