Lee shoved the man to his knees and began choking him. He then began pulling the woman’s pants down but then asked where there car keys were. The husband told him where the keys were.

The husband said Lee suddenly got up and ran out the door without taking the keys or their car.

A mailman told the husband that Lee walked toward Ash Street. Police officers found Lee on Benham Street and arrested him without further incident.

Lee confessed to everything except for trying to pull off the woman’s clothing. He was taken to the county jail.

The woman was taken to a local hospital for treatment of cuts to her hands.

The press release from Bonne Terre Police Department states it appeared Lee had taken a cab from St. Louis to Bonne Terre to stay at a local homeless shelter. Lee told police he only came to Bonne Terre because he had stayed at the shelter once before last year.

The cab dropped him off in town and he attempted to find the shelter on foot.

“He failed to find it, somehow ending up on the front porch of the victim’s home which was on the other side of town from the homeless shelter,” the press release states. The shelter is located on Grove Street.