A witness identified in court as Viviana Contreras Perez testified in the 187th District Court that on May 4 the man she identified as Angel entered a barbershop, took her phone, punched her in the face, used a razor blade against her neck and later had sexual contact with her, the jury heard during testimony.

The trial — which the court called with jurors present — was before Judge Stephanie Boyd. The state identified itself at the bench as Ashley Johnson Repenia; the defense announced John Reitmeyer and Christine Brown. The defendant was announced in court as Angel Cepetes; the principal witness repeatedly referred to the man she named as Angel or Angel Miguel in testimony.

On direct examination, the witness described working in the shop with her back to the door when the man entered, locked the door, asked for her phone and then struck her. She testified the blow cut her and "blood came out from my ear and my nose," and that the man later grabbed a razor blade from a barber station, held it to her neck while escorting her to his car, and led her to an upstairs apartment where she said he forced sexual acts on her. The witness told the jury she did not go to a hospital afterward because she was embarrassed and that she later provided photographs to a detective; the state offered photographs as evidence (the trial record shows a defense objection to the relevance of a tattoo photo was overruled and the exhibit admitted).

Defense cross-examination focused on details and memory: counsel questioned the witness about exact distances, how many rings the defendant wore, whether she had a key to the shop that week, and whether she told officers the same details when first interviewed. The witness acknowledged she had not sought medical care immediately and said she had been embarrassed to report a sexual assault to police. The court recessed the jurors for a lunch break during the testimony and instructed them: "Everything that you're to learn about this case is to come from inside the courtroom and nowhere else," the judge said.

The record shows interpreter issues and scheduling interruptions during the proceeding; at times the witness and counsel used an interpreter and the court paused for breaks and scheduling clarifications. The trial remains in progress; witnesses were expected to resume after the break and the prosecution had placed multiple exhibits and statements into the record as the state presented its case.