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A 19-year-old man was arrested Thursday on charges related to a sexual assault of a disabled woman in 2015.

Another man remains in custody in the same case, and police have a warrant out for a third man’s arrest.

Eric Brooks, 19, was charged with injury to a disabled person in connection with a sexual assault of a 24-year-old legally deaf woman in the 1200 block of Delano Avenue in July 2015. Court documents and police state that Brooks is one of several men who raped the woman in a private apartment. In Brooks’ arrest affidavit issued in July 2015, the investigating detective requests warrants for injury to a disabled person charges while the sexual assault investigation continues.

According to the affidavit, a man “knocked down (the victim) and drug her physically into an apartment where different other males took turns having sex with her and would not allow her to leave on or about July 9, 2015.” The affidavit describes the victim as a “mental health consumer” who is legally deaf and communicates by reading lips.

A second suspect, Scottie Andrew Simpson, 20, was arrested on an injury to a disabled person charge in December in connection with the same alleged assault. Simpson remains in jail.