A suspect was arrested Thursday for allegedly attacking and torturing a Clayton County woman in her own home, Channel 2 Action News reported.
Rakheem Jerome Byrd was taken into custody in Spalding County during a traffic stop while driving the woman's car, investigators said.
Lovejoy police were on the lookout, and a GBI sketch of the suspect, known to the woman as "Raheem," was released Wednesday.
The woman survived a "severe beating," police said, and she is recovering at a hospital.
She told police she met a man at a Tara Boulevard gas station last Thursday and gave him her phone number. She said he attacked her Saturday after arriving at her home uninvited.
Lovejoy Police Sgt. Michael Gaddis told Channel 2 that investigators found broken furniture and blood throughout the woman's home. The woman's 2005 blue Toyota Corolla was taken.
Anyone with any information on the case should call Lovejoy police at 678-610-9748.
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