A fugitive who was found guilty by a jury after he was not presented for the rest of his trial died, confirmed the Sheriff’s Bureau of Washington.
David Powers, 37, from New Auburn, Minnesota, was found dead in San Antonio earlier this week, according to the Sheriff. The authorities had an arrest warrant after having cut off his GPS tracker, violating his parole.
Powers – also known as David Robakevich – testified on Friday for his own defense, but did not appear on Monday.
The jury returned a guilt verdict on Tuesday, condemning the powers of criminal sexual conduct in the first degree, kidnapping and domestic assault by strangulation. Judicial documents allege that Powers attacked and raped a woman and held her in his apartment on Lake Elmo against her will in 2023.
Sources confirm to 5 Eyewitness News that Powers was involved in an assault reported before his death.
The police said that the agents had responded to an underway suicide report at a bridge near the San Antonio International Airport. A man would have jumped from a bridge and on the highway below.
It was then that the San Antonio police said that a driver stopped to help the man along the highway. The suspect would have withdrawn the driver from his vehicle and would have started to attack him.
San Antonio Police report The Bon Samaritan was injured minor but did not need to be taken to the hospital.
EMS took the suspect to the hospital, where he died later.
The Bureau of the Legalist’s County of Bexar, Texas, said that he could not provide details on the case because he was investigated by the San Antonio police service.
