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Fourth suspect in assault, sexual assault arrested

Windsor Police have arrested a fourth suspect wanted after a violent assault and sexual assault at a home on Campbell Avenue last month.

Police had issued an arrest warrant for 45-year-old William J. Dufour.

Officers were called to a business on Campbell Avenue the evening of October 26 after the victim escaped from a nearby home.

The victim said he was lured to the house and attacked by three men and a woman.

While he was forcibly confined, he was threatened with a handgun by a suspect who fired a shot into the floor. Police say he was also assaulted with multiple weapons and sexually assaulted.

Four suspects were identified. A 27-year-old woman, who was already in police custody, was charged with sexual assault with a weapon, forcible confinement, assault causing bodily harm, assault with a weapon, and breach of probation. Police arrested a second suspect, a 35-year-old man, on November 2 and charged him with forcible confinement, and a third suspect, a 62-year-old man, was arrested three days later after an armed standoff in Essex.

On Tuesday, the OPP-led Provincial Repeat Offender Parole Enforcement Unit arrested Dufour on Alexis Avenue.

Dufour is charged with assault causing bodily harm, assault with a weapon, discharging a firearm with intent, assault, forcible confinement, and two counts of breaching probation.

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