Police: Convicted sex offender rapes woman in wheelchair

Metro police arrested and charged a convicted sex offender after they say he posed as a good Samaritan then brutally attacked and raped a woman in a wheelchair after she got off an MTA bus Monday.

Reginald Eugene Gregory, 50 was being jailed with a $250,000 bond Tuesday on one count of aggravated rape in connection to a Monday night attack on a 60-year-old Madison woman, police said.

The woman called police from her apartment to report the assault at 8:30 p.m., police said.

A preliminary investigation revealed the woman came into contact with Gregory while she traveled home with groceries on an MTA bus, and that Gregory agreed to help her down the street to her home.

The woman said once they got to the doorway of her apartment, Gregory dumped her out of her wheelchair and began to choke her with both hands. She said Gregory then carried her to her bedroom where police say he sexually assaulted her.

After Gregory left, police said, the woman called police.

Responding officers located him in a parking lot on South Gallatin Pike and arrested him.

Gregory, a registered sex offender, was arrested for aggravated rape in 2012, and was convicted of attempted rape and received a six-year prison sentence.

Gregory served a little more than two years of his six-year sentence before being released in December of 2014, after earning sentence reduction credits, a Tennessee Department of Corrections spokeswoman said.

Police said he was also arrested for rape in 2003 and was subsequently convicted of aggravated assault and received a sentence of 10 years.

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