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Detectives say gold watch is key evidence in Medical Center rape case

SAN ANTONIO – A gold watch that prosecutors say belonged to a woman Anton Harris is accused of raping and robbing was found in Harris' apartment a week after the 2017 attack.

Harris, the accused ā€œMedical Center rapist,ā€ has been indicted in the sexual assaults of five women in the Medical Center area during 2016 and 2017.

Harris is on trial for the rape and robbery of a nurse. She was attacked as she entered her Medical Center-area apartment on May 28, 2017, police said.

The victim’s attacker, whom she described as a slim African-American man wearing a gray hoodie, also took her rose gold watch, according to the woman.

During Harris' trial, detectives told the jury what they found during a search of Harris' apartment.

ā€œThere was a rose gold-colored Fossil watch that had like a gemmed face to it,ā€ said Sgt. Miles McPeak, with the San Antonio Police Department.

The search also turned up two guns, a knife and a gray hoodie.

In most of the rape cases in which Harris is accused, the victims reported that their attacker wore a gray hoodie and displayed either a gun or knife.