An accused “serial sexual predator” who was recently arrested in New York used a similar pattern of attack in the three Sacramento assaults he’s accused of committing between 2010 and 2013, law enforcement officials said. Representatives from the Sacramento Police Department, sheriff’s office and the FBI detailed the circumstances of the attacks on three women during a press conference on Tuesday and described how investigative DNA genealogy helped them crack cases that had gone cold.The suspect, 35-year-old Kabeh Cummings, is due in court Wednesday in Sacramento to face charges, which include kidnapping and sexual assault. He was arrested in New York on Aug. 29. Sacramento police Chief Kathy Lester said the first assault linked to Cummings happened in February 2010 when a stranger grabbed the victim from behind while she was walking home in the area of Franklin Boulevard and Calvine Road. After putting her in a headlock and strangling her, the suspect pulled the victim into the bushes where he continued to strangle and sexually assault her, according to police.Chief Lester said the suspect then fled while a second suspect, who remains unknown, took the victim’s purse and also fled. A month later in March, a second victim was walking home near the 2700 block of Florin Road when she was grabbed from behind and strangled in a headlock, Lester said. The suspect dragged her into a parking lot and then behind a building where he sexually assaulted her while she was unconscious, Lester said. After the attacker fled, the victim reported the incident to police. In both cases, DNA samples were collected and entered in a system but there were no hits and the cases went cold. “My heart goes out to the victims of these heinous crimes,” Lester said. The third assault that Cummings is alleged to have committed happened in the early morning hours of Sept. 19, 2013. A woman was walking in the area of Watt Avenue and Auburn when a stranger grabbed her from behind and threatened her life with a stun gun, Sacramento County Assistant Sheriff LeeAnneDra Marchese said. After forcing the victim to walk into a dark area and violently sexually assaulting her, the victim got help from a nearby business and then submitted to DNA testing. How the Sacramento cases became linked In November 2021, a detective with the sheriff’s office who was investigating cold case sexual assault reports requested additional testing for the 2013 case. In June 2022, the testing led to the development of a specialized DNA profile that connected the Watt Avenue assault with the two unsolved cases in the City of Sacramento, Marchese said. Eventually, genetic genealogy pointed detectives to Cummings. | Video Below | Sacramento detectives release new information ‘serial sexual predator’ arrestFBI Investigation Assistant Special Agent in Charge Mark Remily said that after being contacted by the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office to support their efforts, multiple FBI field offices assisted with the investigation. “This case is a great example of why all law enforcement agencies must be able to work together,” he said. Cummings had lived in Sacramento at the time of the three rapes and also matched the description provided by the three victims, officials said. Lester said that the department’s career criminal apprehension team led the effort to find Cummings. Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho said that Cummings’ capture is “a testament to DNA evidence.”Cummings faces a maximum sentence of 180 years to life if convicted, Ho said. Cummings worked for the City of Sacramento from 2008 to 2014, according to a city spokesperson. The city said it was still “working to establish the exact positions he held,” but the Sheriff’s Office confirmed that at some point he worked for the Sacramento START Program, which is an after-school program for children. Lester said there is no indication at this time that the assaults were linked to Cummings’ employment with the city. All of the victims known so far in Sacramento are adults, officials said.However, the sheriff’s office believed Cummings moved to New York sometime after 2014.Sexual assault civil lawsuit filed against Cummings in New York CityIn that state, a civil lawsuit was filed in 2019 in the Bronx Supreme Court against Cummings and his alleged employer, The Children’s Village. He is accused of sexually assaulting an underage girl who was part of The Children’s Village’s “Close to Home” program, which allows teens who have been involved in criminal behavior to live in therapeutic residential sites near their homes and communities.Court documents claim Cummings raped the victim between July 4, 2015, and Dec. 25, 2015, when she was 14 and 15 years old.In 2021, the civil suit was “discontinued with prejudice.” The victim’s attorney would not comment to KCRA 3 on Tuesday except to say that the matter was “resolved.”KCRA also reached out to the New York Police Department to see if they investigated Cummings for criminal charges in that case, but they have not yet responded.
An accused “serial sexual predator” who was recently arrested in New York used a similar pattern of attack in the three Sacramento assaults he’s accused of committing between 2010 and 2013, law enforcement officials said.
Representatives from the Sacramento Police Department, sheriff’s office and the FBI detailed the circumstances of the attacks on three women during a press conference on Tuesday and described how investigative DNA genealogy helped them crack cases that had gone cold.
The suspect, 35-year-old Kabeh Cummings, is due in court Wednesday in Sacramento to face charges, which include kidnapping and sexual assault. He was arrested in New York on Aug. 29.
Sacramento police Chief Kathy Lester said the first assault linked to Cummings happened in February 2010 when a stranger grabbed the victim from behind while she was walking home in the area of Franklin Boulevard and Calvine Road. After putting her in a headlock and strangling her, the suspect pulled the victim into the bushes where he continued to strangle and sexually assault her, according to police.
Chief Lester said the suspect then fled while a second suspect, who remains unknown, took the victim’s purse and also fled.
A month later in March, a second victim was walking home near the 2700 block of Florin Road when she was grabbed from behind and strangled in a headlock, Lester said.
The suspect dragged her into a parking lot and then behind a building where he sexually assaulted her while she was unconscious, Lester said. After the attacker fled, the victim reported the incident to police.
In both cases, DNA samples were collected and entered in a system but there were no hits and the cases went cold.
“My heart goes out to the victims of these heinous crimes,” Lester said.
The third assault that Cummings is alleged to have committed happened in the early morning hours of Sept. 19, 2013.
A woman was walking in the area of Watt Avenue and Auburn when a stranger grabbed her from behind and threatened her life with a stun gun, Sacramento County Assistant Sheriff LeeAnneDra Marchese said.
After forcing the victim to walk into a dark area and violently sexually assaulting her, the victim got help from a nearby business and then submitted to DNA testing.
How the Sacramento cases became linked
In November 2021, a detective with the sheriff’s office who was investigating cold case sexual assault reports requested additional testing for the 2013 case.
In June 2022, the testing led to the development of a specialized DNA profile that connected the Watt Avenue assault with the two unsolved cases in the City of Sacramento, Marchese said.
Eventually, genetic genealogy pointed detectives to Cummings.
| Video Below | Sacramento detectives release new information ‘serial sexual predator’ arrest
FBI Investigation Assistant Special Agent in Charge Mark Remily said that after being contacted by the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office to support their efforts, multiple FBI field offices assisted with the investigation.
“This case is a great example of why all law enforcement agencies must be able to work together,” he said.
Cummings had lived in Sacramento at the time of the three rapes and also matched the description provided by the three victims, officials said.
Lester said that the department’s career criminal apprehension team led the effort to find Cummings.
Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho said that Cummings’ capture is “a testament to DNA evidence.”
Cummings faces a maximum sentence of 180 years to life if convicted, Ho said.
Cummings worked for the City of Sacramento from 2008 to 2014, according to a city spokesperson.
The city said it was still “working to establish the exact positions he held,” but the Sheriff’s Office confirmed that at some point he worked for the Sacramento START Program, which is an after-school program for children.
Lester said there is no indication at this time that the assaults were linked to Cummings’ employment with the city. All of the victims known so far in Sacramento are adults, officials said.
However, the sheriff’s office believed Cummings moved to New York sometime after 2014.
Sexual assault civil lawsuit filed against Cummings in New York City
In that state, a civil lawsuit was filed in 2019 in the Bronx Supreme Court against Cummings and his alleged employer, The Children’s Village. He is accused of sexually assaulting an underage girl who was part of The Children’s Village’s “Close to Home” program, which allows teens who have been involved in criminal behavior to live in therapeutic residential sites near their homes and communities.
Court documents claim Cummings raped the victim between July 4, 2015, and Dec. 25, 2015, when she was 14 and 15 years old.
In 2021, the civil suit was “discontinued with prejudice.” The victim’s attorney would not comment to KCRA 3 on Tuesday except to say that the matter was “resolved.”
KCRA also reached out to the New York Police Department to see if they investigated Cummings for criminal charges in that case, but they have not yet responded.
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