REVOLVING DOOR NIGHTMARE.
A woman asleep in her West Campus apartment wakes up to a stranger on her bed. He claims he has a gun, starts strangling her until she nearly blacks out, and tries ripping her clothes off. She gouges his eye and beats him with a fan to escape.
This was Octavius Brown’s third break-in that same morning. In the first two apartments, residents woke up to him standing there fully exposed and masturbating inside their rooms.
Brown has racked up around 30 cases since 2013, mostly indecent exposure and sex offenses. He’s a registered sex offender who had just been released in March on deferred adjudication for yet another felony exposure charge in the exact same area.
He's a registered sex offender who has cycled through the local Travis County justice system for years — arrests, plea deals, releases, and re-offending — all handled as a domestic criminal case!
He told police he was high on meth, driven by “instinctual desire,” and broke in purely for sexual gratification.
This isn’t random chaos. It’s years of the same pattern, plea deals, quick releases, and the system putting him right back on the streets near young students.
How many women have to fight for their lives before this stops?