Overview
- Berkeley police say Lashay Durisseau, 56, was taken into custody Tuesday near his home in Richmond, Texas, without incident.
- Authorities link at least seven victims across four jurisdictions that include Berkeley and Oakland in California and Richmond and Beaumont in Texas.
- Testing of a 2002 Berkeley rape kit in 2015 produced a case-to-case DNA match that connected five additional cases.
- Further cold-case work funded by a California Department of Justice grant in 2020–2021 expanded the investigation and, with FBI comparison testing, led to an arrest warrant.
- A local outlet reports multiple counts including forcible rape and forced oral copulation with special allegations, while formal charging decisions and the order of prosecutions across states remain pending.