SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - More than a decade after a Dallas man robbed a Shreveport woman and threatened to rape her, a unanimous Caddo Parish jury found him guilty as charged in a retrial that concluded Thursday, August 21, 2025.

The three-woman, nine-man jury in District Judge Donald E. Hathaway Jr.’s court deliberated about an hour before returning its finding that in late August 2014, Joseph Martin Bryant, 50, forced his way into the home of his female victim, who lived on Creswell Avenue in the Spring Lake neighborhood, after knocking on the door and offering to perform tree trimming services. Armed with a knife, he threatened to rape and kill her. But after about 15 to 20 minutes, he fled after taking about $120 in cash. The case remained unsolved for approximately one month.

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