Erie police accuse city man of raping woman after allegedly threatening her with a gun

Erie police are accusing an 18-year-old city man of raping a woman he was dating after allegedly threatening to shoot her if she didn’t have sex with him.

Jaquan Manus, 18, remained in the Erie County Jail Friday on $175,000 bond after his arraignment Thursday afternoon on charges of rape and sexual assault and a misdemeanor count of terroristic threatening.

Police filed the charges Wednesday after investigators said the 18-year-old woman reported the alleged rape to them.

According to investigators, the woman said she had been in a relationship with Manus for several months and that Manus pressured her into having sex.

She said Manus contacted her on Facebook on October 26, showed a gun and demanded she go to his house to have sex. The woman said Manus threatened to shoot her and shoot up her house if she didn’t, investigators said Friday.

The woman said that when she went to the home, Manus removed the magazine from the gun and showed her that the gun was loaded, police said. She said she didn’t want to have sex but was afraid she would be shot if she didn’t, investigators said.

According to court records, Manus is tentatively scheduled to appear in court for his preliminary hearing on December 4. A lawyer for Manus was not on his criminal record on Friday.

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This article originally appeared on Erie Times-News: Erie Police: Man raped woman after allegedly threatening her with a gun