MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The Memphis Police Department has arrested a man who is accused of raping a woman in Whitehaven and stealing from her earlier this month.

Around five in the morning on August 5, MPD arrived at the 4900 block of Brady Drive to meet a female victim.

She told police that she was awakened out of her sleep to see a man standing over her with a gun pointed at her.

According to MPD, he demanded money from her, but when she told him she didn’t have any, he then raped the woman.

Afterwards, the woman told the officers that she was forced to go downstairs and was asked again to give him money.

She gave him three dollars out of her purse. The man left the residence afterwards.

The woman was transported to the sexual assault resource center, where a rape kit was collected.

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