Jury selection will begin Tuesday for the man accused of raping a woman he met on an online dating site, the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office said.
Devin Richard Hartman, 40, used an alias when he used the OKCupid website to meet a woman in June 2014, according to investigators. A 28-year-old Atlanta woman told police she thought the man she was meeting for a first date was named Zach Anderson, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution previously reported.
The woman told authorites she had six beers before her date dropped her off at her car on the night of June 20, 2014, according to a police report. The next thing she remembered was waking up on her own doorstep without her keys, cellphone or underwear, she told police.
At Grady Memorial Hospital, an exam determined the woman had been sexually assaulted, and she called police.
Through DNA and phone records, Atlanta police tracked down the suspect, identified as Hartman. On March 2, the Mableton man was arrested and charged with rape and aggravated sodomy and booked into the Fulton County jail. Hartman was later indicted and has remained in jail since his arrest.
Jury selection is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in Superior Court Judge Constance Russell’s courtroom. The trial will follow jury selection, the district attorney’s office said.
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