A man wanted in connection with breaking into a Tanager Road home and raping a female resident February 5th is now in custody. 28-year old Marcus Thomas Wooley of 814 Tanager Road, Apartment B, was located around 9:15 last night at a home on Lark Street by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office in conjunction with its Street Crimes Unit, Drug Task Force, and the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force.
The victim says Wooley, who she knows, broke into her home through a window while she was sleeping. Although he was wearing a beanie cap, sunglasses, and blue latex gloves, the victim says she recognized his smell (either his cologne, deodorant, or shampoo) as well as his voice when he talked to her. The victim says he forced her to have sex and when she asked him why he was doing that to her, he replied “I don’t care if you’re eight or eighty –cripple, blind or crazy”
After the suspect left out the front door, the victim was evaluated at Fort Walton Beach Medical Center where a nurse practitioner said she had bruising and injuries consistent with non-consensual sexual intercourse.
Wooley is charged with sexual battery and burglary with assault or battery.
