Key Takeaways
- Two Super 8 motel guests in Breckenridge Hills heard a woman screaming in a hallway and intervened to stop her attacker.
- Jaier K. Keaton is charged with first-degree rape or attempted rape after allegedly following the woman into the hallway and forcing her to the ground.
- One guest punched Keaton while he continued attacking the woman, and both guests pulled him off and separated him from her.
- Keaton fled the motel in a T-shirt and underwear but was caught by police down the street, where he claimed he was seduced into rape.
- Keaton is held on a $100,000 cash-only bond with a preliminary hearing set for December 8, and he is presumed innocent unless convicted.
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BRECKENRIDGE HILLS, MO — Two guests at a Super 8 motel heard a woman screaming for help in a hallway, and police say one of them punched the man attacking her before the pair separated him from her. That man, Jaier K. Keaton of the Florissant area, is now charged with first-degree rape or attempted rape.
The account comes from police and the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, as reported by FOX 2.
Police placed the alleged attack at the Super 8 by Wyndham in the 3500 block of St. Charles Rock Road. According to police, Keaton tried to have sex with the woman despite her repeatedly telling him to stop. She escaped the room they shared and yelled for help.
He followed her into the hallway. He forced her to the ground. Police said he again tried to force himself on her.
Two guests heard her. One punched Keaton as he kept attacking her. Together they pulled him off and separated him from the woman. Investigators said cellphone video captured part of what happened in that hallway.
Keaton ran from the motel in a T-shirt and underwear. Police caught him down the street. During his arrest, police said, he claimed he was “seduced into rape.” Police say the woman had repeatedly told him to stop and had fled the room.
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Nothing in the police account involves a firearm. This one is about mindset. A woman was screaming in a motel hallway, and two strangers moved toward the screaming instead of staying behind their doors. One punch and two people willing to put their hands on him got him off her. The two guests have not been named.
Keaton remains jailed on a $100,000 cash-only bond, with a bond-reduction hearing scheduled for Nov. 19 and a preliminary hearing set for Dec. 8. The charge is an allegation, and he is presumed innocent unless convicted.
