In July, Cornell Long pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree rape and one count of first-degree burglary.
On July 23, 2015, at around 3:30 a.m., Long broke into the victim’s Buffalo apartment through her living room window. He took a knife off of her kitchen counter and entered her bedroom, where he threatened to “slit the throat” of his victim. Long proceeded to rape the victim over the course of several hours.
Later, he fractured the victim’s nose and caused multiple bodily injuries. The victim fled to the store where she worked, and her manager called 911. The defendant was apprehended a short time later.
Acting DA Flaherty praised the work of the patrol officers in this case: “The rapid response and quick thinking of patrol Officers Mark Tripp and Timothy O’Neill ensured that this defendant was quickly apprehended, and even more importantly, preserved all of the physical evidence that was critical to securing a conviction.”
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