ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (TCD) — A man pleaded guilty this week to charges related to the 2022 sexual assault and stabbing of an elderly woman who was jogging with her dog on a trail.
Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman announced Jan. 30 that Reginald Hall pleaded guilty during his trial this week to criminal sexual penetration resulting in great bodily harm, criminal sexual penetration with a deadly weapon, three counts of aggravated battery, and cruelty to animals.
According to KRQE-TV, a judge sentenced Hall to 49 years in prison with 19 years suspended.
On Aug. 19, 2022, at around 7:30 a.m., Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the area near 2nd Street and Woodward Road Southwest on the Bosque trail to a report of a stabbing. The reporting party reportedly saw a man, later identified as Hall, who was 19 at the time, pulling a 70-year-old woman into a canal. The witness confronted Hall, snapping photos of him, and then the suspect fled the scene on a scooter.
According to the sheriff’s office, bystanders helped the woman get out of the canal and led first responders to her. Deputies and fire rescue personnel provided medical aid to the victim. She was eventually transported to a hospital to treat multiple stab wounds, as well as injuries from a sexual assault.