New details arise in Llano rape case
Shane Taylor
By Alexandria Randolph
Highland Lakes Newspapers
Llano City Police have released additional information on a rape case in which a Gatesville man was indicted last month.
Shane Nolan Taylor, 36, was indicted on July 5 on charges of burglary of a habitation with intent to commit other felonies, aggravated sexual assault, a first-degree felony, and sexual assault, a second degree felony, after an incident in a Llano County home on April 11.
Llano Police Chief Kevin Ratliff said Taylor was arrested after authorities said he broke into a woman’s home and raped her on April 11 between 9 and 10 a.m. Ratliff said Taylor made forcible entry into the woman's home in a duplex in the 700 block of East Sandstone Street.
“We believe he knew her, or had just met her,” Ratliff said. “He thought his girlfriend was in her house.”
According to an indictment affidavit, Taylor entered the woman’s home and raped her under threat of violence. Taylor put the victim “in fear of death or serious bodily injury would be imminently inflicted…”
Taylor was arrested on July 28 to face criminal proceedings. He was booked in Burnet County Jail due to overflow at the Llano County Jail, and is held on bond of $300,000. Ratliff said Taylor has no arrest of similar charges in Llano County, but is believed to be on probation in Coryell County.
