The man allegedly raped a woman and attacked another woman within 45 minutes in Bay Village and Theater District

A Lowell man allegedly raped a woman in Bay Village and attempted to rape another woman he randomly encountered in the Theater District last Saturday, according to court records.

Solomon Wambui, 25, was arraigned Monday in Boston Municipal Court, where he was ordered held without bail under the state’s endangerment law. He pleaded not guilty to charges of rape and assault with intent to rape, records show.

According to court records, a 26-year-old woman was walking home in Bay Village around 4:30 a.m. after working late. The woman was on the phone with her mother when Wambui allegedly came up behind her on Cortes Street.

“Can you leave?” the woman asked Wambui, according to court records. “Can I have some personal space?”

Wambui is said to have responded by insisting that the woman “come with me. I can help you. I can take you home,” prosecutors said in the lawsuits.

At that point, Wambui allegedly grabbed the woman by “the front of her neck and then from behind and dragged her to the ground” and raped her, prosecutors said.

“The entire attack and rape of the first woman was captured on video,” prosecutors said.

As Wambui ran down Arlington Street, the woman recorded him on her cell phone, called 911 and gave police his description. Officers began searching the area and saw a man matching the suspect’s description emerge from Eliot Norton Park around 5:15 a.m., prosecutors said.

A 47-year-old woman walking nearby told police the man had sexually assaulted her, prosecutors said.

She later told police she was walking along Charles Street South when a man started following her.

“She increased her walking pace and he did so too,” prosecutors said.

Wambui allegedly grabbed the woman and put his hand over her mouth, causing her to have trouble breathing because of her asthma, prosecutors said.

Wambui allegedly forced her into the grassy area of the park and assaulted her, prosecutors said.

“She cried. She tried to get away from him by twisting and turning her body. The victim tried to scream as much as she could, but with his hand covering her mouth, it was difficult,” prosecutors said.

The woman managed to convince Wambui to stop and walk with her out of the park “to see if she could get away from him,” prosecutors said.

Police searching for the man who raped the woman on Cortes Street saw Wambui and noticed his zipper was open and he was bleeding, prosecutors said. Officers arrested him in connection with both attacks, prosecutors said.

“The nature and circumstances of these crimes can only be described as violent, brutal and extremely heinous,” prosecutors said. “The only reason he was discovered and ultimately arrested was because he attacked another victim close to the attack on the first victim.”

In court papers, prosecutors said Wambui has no prior domestic violence convictions and was not on probation for any recent convictions.

His attorney was not immediately available Friday.

His arrest was first reported by the Boston Herald.

Wambui is due back in court on November 22.

John R. Ellement can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him @JREbosglobe.