Roy Gutierrez didn't stand out among the Deep Ellum crowds as he walked along the sidewalk with his arms wrapped around a visibly intoxicated woman late on a Saturday night.

Roy Gutierrez was sentenced to life for an aggravated sexual assault in Deep Ellum. (Dallas County jail)

Bar-goers and people in line to order tacos might have thought he was helping a friend walk to her car. But he wasn't her friend.

More than an hour after surveillance cameras recorded Gutierrez leading the woman down crowded sidewalks, along a street and through an empty parking lot, the woman jumped a fence and ran to a stranger, begging for help.

Gutierrez, 41, was convicted this week of one count of aggravated sexual assault for attacking and raping the woman in a secluded rocky pathway behind a building last June.

The Dallas County jury that convicted him also sentenced him to life in prison after hearing four other women describe Gutierrez attacking them.

Three of those women said they were raped years earlier by Gutierrez.

The June 2017 victim testified under the pseudonym June Holmes.

She said she was drunk when Gutierrez met her on a Deep Ellum patio and doesn't remember much until she came to while Gutierrez was on top of her assaulting her.

"I was still intoxicated, but I remember everything past that point," she said.

Gutierrez choked her and forced her to perform oral sex. She tussled with him and managed to run away. Holmes flagged down a woman walking on the street near a rail station and told her to call 911.

"I was just hysterical. I was just crying," she testified.

Holmes can be heard sobbing in the background of the 911 call. She repeats, "He raped me," while the caller explained how Holmes ran up to her crying.

The 911 caller, Jazmon McTear, testified that Holmes "looked like she had jumped a fence or something."

"She had a lot of scratches and a lot of dirt on her face, like somebody had smushed her face to the ground," she said.

Hospital photos show scratches and bruises over much of Holmes' body.

Defense attorney Hank Judin argued that Gutierrez and Holmes had consensual sex.

But the surveillance footage shows Gutierrez with one arm around Holmes' shoulders and his hand holding her elbow before the assault. The woman tries to pull away from him several times at various points, but Gutierrez keeps holding her.

Phone records show Holmes also tried to text her family while with Gutierrez.

"Call 911," the text said, "this guy has me captive."

Roy Gutierrez is shown on surveillance footage shared with the public after a woman was raped in Deep Ellum. (Dallas Police Department)

Gutierrez was identified after Dallas police released a still image from a Deep Ellum surveillance camera.

Later, his DNA was matched to evidence from a sexual assault exam of Holmes.

His DNA was also matched to evidence from a 2006 sexual assault exam of Wendy Birdsall.

The Dallas Morning News does not typically identify victims of sexual assault, but Birdsall and another woman raped by Gutierrez wanted to share their stories and their names.

Birdsall was walking in the street after an argument with her boyfriend when a man in a car asked her if she wanted a ride.

She got in the car but quickly regretted it, she testified. The man, whom she identified as Gutierrez in court, didn't talk much and started driving toward a secluded area in Oak Cliff.

Birdsall said she saw he had a gun. Gutierrez pulled over and forced her into the back seat, where he raped her.

At one point during her testimony, Gutierrez scoffed, shook his head and started writing on a notepad on the table in front of him.

Birdsall spoke softly, but her voice got louder as she recounted how she got away from Gutierrez.

"I ran. I ran as fast as I could," she said.

Birdsall banged on doors once she got to a neighborhood, shouting, "Help me! Help me!"

She cried as she recalled the experience.

Birdsall has shared her life story with The Dallas Morning News, including overcoming addiction and graduating from Southern Methodist University in May.

Two other women testified against Gutierrez during the sentencing portion of the trial. They each recounted similar experiences, including being picked up by a man in a car and taken to a secluded area where he raped them.

"This is a man who hunts vulnerable women," prosecutor Leighton D'Antoni argued.

Gutierrez received probation on a charge of aggravated assault with serious bodily injury in 2007, which was reduced from an aggravated sexual assault charge for the attack of Tamera DeLuna.

DeLuna's story is similar to Birdsall's. She got into a car with Gutierrez after arguing with her boyfriend, and Gutierrez drove her to a secluded place.

"I had the cutest little sundress on," she recalled.

Then he pulled out a knife and cut off the dress, she said. Then he raped her.

DeLuna's attack was interrupted by police. Though she said Gutierrez told her not to, she told officers that he raped her.

Gutierrez violated the terms of the probation stemming from that attack and was sentenced to five years in prison in 2010.

Judin argued that Gutierrez's accusers were sex workers who agreed to have sex with him in exchange for money.

But DeLuna disputed that.

"You don't really go to any out-of-the-way locations. You go to a motel," she said.

Prosecutors D'Antoni and Amy Derrick said Gutierrez preyed on women's vulnerabilities and argued that he should be sent away for life.

"Time's up. No more," he said.

After Gutierrez was sentenced, Birdsall said she couldn't understand why Gutierrez laughed at her while she testified.

"As I sat here and poured my heart out in this courtroom, you laughed," she said.

While Gutierrez was led out of the courtroom in shackles, Birdsall loudly laughed.

"Ha, ha, ha. Now I have the last laugh," she said.