EL CERRITO — A man already facing trial in a Berkeley sexual assault case has been charged in a 2005 El Cerrito home-invasion attack on two women, one of whom was sexually assaulted, authorities said Wednesday.

Keith Asberry, 33, who has been in custody since 2015, was charged Oct. 20 in the El Cerrito case as a result of DNA evidence and leads developed in other cases, police said in a news release Wednesday.

He is currently in custody at Santa Rita Jail on multiple charges and is being held without bail.

In their release, police said the February 2005 case “was one that weighed heavily on many officers working here when it happened” and that the department has been actively investigating that and other unsolved violent crimes.

According to police and previous media reports, the attacks happened in the early evening hours on Feb. 14, 2005.

The two women were at their El Cerrito apartment when someone knocked on the door. Upon opening it, they were confronted by a masked man with a pistol who forced his way inside.

The man then walked the women to their respective rooms demanding money and jewelry and sexually assaulted one of them, who was 20 at the time.

The man then demanded a key to their 1985 Chevrolet Monte Carlo car and told them to get inside. But the women refused numerous times and the man finally drove off in the vehicle, the release said. The woman immediately contacted a neighbor to call police. The car was found the next day in Richmond.

Asberry, who has a lengthy criminal record dating back to when he was a teenager, was formally charged in the El Cerrito case on Oct. 20.

Police are asking anyone with information about the case to call the detective unit at 510-215-4414, extension 40 or email to investigations@ci.el-cerrito.ca.us.

The Berkeley case that Asberry is charged in occurred in May 2008, when a 15-year-old girl and 19-year-old woman were the victims, authorities said.

Asberry is accused in that case of having a gun and jumping into the back seat of the car the two were in and ordering them to drive to a cul-de-sac where the older victim was raped and the other sexually molested.

He fled but was eventually identified through DNA and arrested in 2015, authorities said. He is also suspected in other attacks, authorities said.