The Davidson County Grand Jury indicted 25-year-old Kyle Bassett on March 6th after being charged with four counts of rape, a count of aggravated assault, and a count of sexual battery. The indictment alleges that on December 11th, 2023, Kyle Bassett engaged in unlawful sexual penetration by force and strangulation. A judicial commissioner set his bond at $150,000.
A Davidson County Grand Jury indicted 25-year-old John Everett Vonkleeck for two counts of rape and two counts of sexual battery on February 7th. The indictment alleges Vonkleeck, between the 29th day of July 2023 and the 30th day of July 2023, in Davidson County, Tennessee, before the finding of this indictment, did attempt to commit the offense of rape. In that he, John Everett Vonkleeck, did attempt to engage in unlawful sexual penetration of JL. In addition, Vonkleeck knew or had reason to know that JL was mentally defective, mentally incapacitated or physically helpless against the peace and dignity of the State of Tennessee. Vonkleeck was taken into custody on February 9th.
37-year-old Joseph Mcfall, a.k.a Omari Enso, was charged with four counts of rape and incest during an October Davidson County Grand Jury in 2021. The indictment states that Joseph knowingly engaged in nonconsensual sexual penetration twice with his 17-year-old niece on the 12th of June, 2020. And he did so two more times on June 13th, 2020. He was booked into jail for the charges on September 8th.
Police say 21-year-old Torrean Smith had sexual relations with a juvenile on August 19. The juvenile reported to the police that she and Torrean had intercourse in the back seat of a vehicle once after Hermitage patrol officers caught them at Lock Two Park.
40-year-old Alexander Airhart took the victim, D. L. M., home with him from a bar on July 22nd to show her the architecture where he raped her, the victim stated. She disclosed the incident to police at Vanderbilt Hospital on July 23rd, where they responded to a sexual assault call. She said on the night of July 21st, she, Alexander, and his unknown friend were at a bar when Alexander invited her to his house on Battlefield Dr. to “see the architecture.”
She said yes, and had a couple of sips of a drink that Alexander made her while his friend slept on the couch. After a little more socializing, she stated that she wanted to leave, but Alexander convinced her to stay the night due to her drinking and being unsafe for her to drive. Again, she agreed, and Alexander offered for her to stay in his bed since his friend was on the couch. While they were upstairs in Alexander’s room, she said that she felt sick and was sitting on the edge of the bed when Alexander began taking her clothes off. She told Alexander, “Please don’t do this. I don’t want this,” as he reportedly ripped her pants off. She told him she was about to vomit to get him to move away from her.
He went into the bathroom, so she tried to exit the room. He saw this, pulled her into the bathroom, and then put her pants and purse in the bedroom. Entering the room again to grab her items, the victim stated that Alexander began pushing her, eventually getting her onto the bed despite her attempts to fight him off. During the struggle, Alexander got on top of her and pushed her legs apart, forcing his member into her mouth by prying her mouth open. She stated, “Please stop,” but then decided to “let it happen” so it would end sooner. He then penetrated her sexually as she said she pleaded with him to stop, but she blacked out soon after that. When she awoke, she said she was in the same room, and was bleeding from the forced penetration. On July 23rd, she went to Vanderbilt and completed a Medico/legal-examination (rape kit). The report stated that she had bruises on her collarbone and redness on her vagina.
53-year-old Mark Stubblefield was indicted during the April session of the Davidson County Grand Jury on one count of rape. The indictment alleges that Stubblefield, who lives in downtown Nashville, unlawfully penetrated K.W. in November 2019 without consent. He is free on a $20,000 bond.
29-year-old Kevin Brown of Mississippi, on July 21st, bonded out of jail on an $85,000 bond after being indicted for two counts of rape and one count of harassment. It is alleged that the two counts of rape were committed on June 29th of 2022, and the harassment was on the same day and October 11th of 2022. The indictment was filed with the Davidson County Criminal Court Clerk on May 31st, 2023, and he was booked on July 14th.
21-year-old Fort Campbell soldier Bradley Cheek is now charged with the rape of a Nashville woman who he was seeing while his wife is pregnant. We covered Cheek in April when he strangled his ex-girlfriend and now rape victim, telling her, “I’m 170lbs of pure muscle, and if I wanted to, I could destroy you.” Prior to that, we covered him in July 2022 when he assaulted his wife. The new rape charges stem from an April encounter in Nashville. Warning: graphic details in story.
18-year-old Jalen Grizzard was booked this week for allegedly raping his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend in her school’s parking lot on April 13th. The juvenile victim told police that she and Grizzard had been in an on-and-off relationship for a year and a half and he found out that she had sex with another male the day before. According to the juvenile, Grizzard came to her school to talk to her, and when she told him no, he threatened to tell her mom. She went to the parking lot to talk to him in his car. He was angry and told her that she was going to have sex with him. The Juvenile told him, “No,” and he grabbed her by her hair. She told him that she was not going to get in the backseat with him, and he took off his pants and told her again that they were going to have sex. She told him “No” again, and he hit her in the head and face, then grabbed her by her neck to force her to give him oral sex while digging his fingers into her neck. Grizzard told her he would keep hitting her if she didn’t do it. She was forced to give him oral sex, and then he rolled her to the backseat and continued to rape her.
18-year-old Berk Arapgirlioglu was jailed on April 5th for raping a woman on March 31st in the backseat of his car. The 18-year-old female victim told police that she agreed to go out on a date with Berk, and he picked her up from her home. He took her to multiple places before arriving at a parking lot at Reservoir Park. They fooled around in the back seat of his car, but she told Berk no when he told her he wanted to have sex.
Despite the victim telling him at least twice that she did not want to have sex, he tugged at her pants, trying to pull them down. While he was doing this, she told him no again. He pulled her pants and underwear down and started raping her as she continued to say “No” and “I don’t want to do this.” He held her hands down forcefully and told her to “shut the f*-k up” as she was crying in the midst of it. When Berk was questioned on April 5th, he admitted to police that despite the victim saying “no,” he knew she really wanted to have sex. He also admitted to telling her to “shut the fuck up’ while he raped her.
