13 Investigates: Newly released texts, emails reveal little about UH rape suspect’s release

For months, our 13 Investigates team has been trying to learn more about the police response to a violent sexual assault on the University of Houston’s campus in February.

Harris County court records show the victim immediately reported the assault to UH’s police department on Feb. 7 and went to the hospital that night, where DNA swabs were collected.

In the following hours, the suspect, Eric Brown, 40, was located and taken into custody, but he was released the next day with no charges for the sexual assault and robbery of the then-21-year-old UH student…

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