Photo: Salt Lake City Police Department
The man accused of killing23-year-old University of Utah student MacKenzie Lueckwas once accused of rape, but the case wasn’t prosecuted after the woman declined to press charges.
The North Park Police Department confirms in a statement that it fielded a complaint from a female alleged victim aboutAyoola Ajayiin 2014, when the 31-year-old Salt Lake City man lived in North Logan, Utah.
The department subsequently launched an investigation into the rape allegations that ended when the complainant “decided not to press charges,” according to the statement.
Investigators did not provide further details about the allegations.
Lueck was last seen June 17, and her family reported her missing June 20.
Ajayi has not yet had a hearing to enter a plea or determine whether he can be freed on bail.
It is unclear whether he has retained an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
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PEOPLE’s call to his home phone number went unanswered.
This latest development in the case follows reports that Ajayi allegedly tried in early April to hire an independent contractorto construct a secret, soundproof roombeneath his front porch.
Brian Wolf toldthe Deseret Newshe ultimately turned down the job after Ajayi asked if hooks could be installed in the walls of the hidden space.
“As soon as he said he wanted the hooks above head height, I was like, ‘Why do you need big hooks up there?'” recalled Wolf of his April 4 meeting with Ajayi. “And he said it was to hang a wine rack. I said, ‘Well, I can hang a wine rack and make it look a lot nicer than these big, gaudy hooks.'”
Lueck’s family and friends have launcheda GoFundMe campaignto help defray some of her funeral costs.
source: people.com
