A 22-year-old has been convicted of beating and sexually assaulting a woman in her home while on probation for armed robbery.

Police said Antwon Pitt entered an apartment in the 1800 block of A Street SE and found a woman working from home on October 13. After asking her if anyone else was home, he choked the woman and dragged her to the bed, she recounted in harrowing testimony. The Washington Post reported from the trial:

“I couldn’t breathe,” she said. “I thought he was going to suffocate or strangle me.”

She said she tried to punch and kick the man. He tossed her onto her bed. At the time, she testified, she felt dizzy and had an “out-of-body” experience. She said she envisioned the ocean and birds. Then, she heard the man speaking to her.

“If you want to live, stop fighting,” he said.

She said she realized that she had a chance to survive.

“I wanted to live,” she told the jury.

She realized she was naked from the waist down, except for one sock. Then, she went limp.

“I said, ‘I have two daughters. Please don’t leave them without a mother. Please don’t kill me,’” she said.

Then, she recounted, she told the man to put on a condom. She began sobbing on the witness stand, and a prosecutor brought her a tissue.

The man put on a condom and raped her, she said. He came back into the room with her cellphone and demanded her passcode. Then, he left.

The woman was hospitalized with facial injuries that required surgery.

MPD tracked the victim’s cellphone to a gas station in Mitchellville, MD, and stopped Pitt with it, as well as checks made out to the victim’s husband. He matched the description provided by the victim and surveillance footage of a man in the building’s alley.

The attack left the Hill East community frightened and outraged, particularly after learning that Pitt was out on probation for an armed robbery and a subsequent drug case, and had cut off his GPS monitoring bracelet, stopped meeting with his supervision officer, and was caught with synthetic marijuana. The Post chronicled all the ways that Pitt continued to get second chances from the justice system before committing the assault.

Pitt blamed the assault on his cousin, and claimed only to have been in the vicinity to collect stolen checks and a cellphone from him. The jury convicted him on all charges: two counts of first-degree burglary and one count of first degree sexual abuse.

In addition to the sexual assault, Pitt was also charged with a second burglary offense that police said took place the week on Oct. 3. In that case, a woman woke up to find a man in her Northeast home, who proceeded to rob her cellphone, wallet, and other belongings. He’s pleaded not guilty in that case.

This post has been updated with information from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.