Investigators say a man killed himself Tuesday after tying up a woman and raping her at gunpoint.
Just after 10 a.m. Tuesday, dispatchers in Wood County got a phone call from someone in Marshfield who said a woman was crying for help from an apartment next door. Marshfield officers found a 25-year-old woman tied to her bed. She said she had been raped at gunpoint by 36-year-old Jason Felce. Police found her six-month-old baby in the apartment and the baby was not hurt. The woman was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital. Around the same time, Chippewa County got a 911 call from a man who said his girlfriend was in an apartment tied up, alive, and the baby was okay.
Deputies traced the cell phone call to Cadott and found Felce had shot himself in the basement of a house at 5498 210th Street in Cadott where he lived with his parents. Court records show Felce has been convicted of sexual assault with use of a dangerous weapon, armed burglary, and violating a domestic abuse restraining order.