Cross-dressing Tulsa man assaults, rapes, robs woman at gunpoint

On September 29, police in Tulsa, Oklahoma, announced that their officers were dispatched to the Trade Winds Central Inn near 51st and Harvard on Tuesday, September 27 to respond to a rape report. A female victim told the responding officers that she was standing by her hotel room when a man dressed as a woman walked by and asked where he could buy drugs.

The victim said the man, later identified as Brandon Herd, was wearing a black wig, miniskirt, and black slides.

The victim said she told Herd she did not have any drugs; and when she went to shut the door, Herd hit her over the head with a gun, forced her back into the room, and then committed a rape while holding her at gunpoint. The victim’s elderly friend was also inside the room at the time.

The victim said Herd raped her a second time, ransacked her room, took many of her personal belongings, and then left in a yellow car. On September 28, a hotel employee spotted Herd and called police.

The Tulsa Police Helicopter responded to the area, and with help from officers in the air, officers on the ground quickly located Herd at a nearby convenience store and he was taken into custody.