Winkler was already in jail on Friday, facing charges in two other assaults. One occurred on the night of Aug. 5 last year, when, police said, he raped a woman at gunpoint in a yard on the 2400 block of Erdman Ave. after following her as she walked home after work. Winkler is awaiting a May trial in that case.
The other assault took place on Aug. 30, when he is accused of attacking a 16-year-old acquaintance who knew him as "Rome" and who had asked to use the bathroom in his home on Harford Road.
As she walked into the house, "Rome then approached her from the rear and pulled a black stocking around her neck," according to court documents.
He forced her into a bedroom and the girl resisted by scratching his face, the investigating detective wrote, adding that Winkler "began to choke her aggressively with his hands and pushed her down into the bed." As Winkler was raping her, he said, "Don't say anything and I will give you some money," according to the charging document.
Winkler had been released from prison in late 2007 after serving part of a 19-year sentence for raping a 13-year-old girl at gunpoint in March 1994. In that case, according to court documents, Winkler forced open the back door to a Druid Park Drive home and chased the girl, who had been doing her homework at the dining room table.
Holding a .32-caliber revolver to her head, Winkler forced her upstairs and made her undress, according to a police officer's written account. After the assault, he left through the back door, the officer wrote. Winkler was arrested shortly afterward on a city bus. He put up a struggle, police said, during which the handgun dropped out of his clothes.
Baltimore Sun reporter Gus. G. Sentementes contributed to this article.
