An Ames woman who accused a Nevada man of sexually assaulting her testified in court Wednesday about her certainty of his identity.

“This is the individual who did this to me. There is no doubt at all,” the woman said in court.

A man allegedly broke into the woman’s home and sexually assaulted her after she returned home from work at about midnight on July 12.

David Morrow was charged in July with burglary in the first degree, sexual abuse in the second degree and harassing in the first degree in connection with the case.

He is pleading not guilty in the trial.

The woman testified at the Story County Justice Center that Morrow threatened to kill her if she did not cooperate.

After the attack, the woman returned to her place of work to get help.

Tim Randles testified that when the woman returned to work she was upset and crying. Randles is the general manager of O’Malley & McGees Mexican Caf‚, 716 Duff Ave.

“I saw [the woman] balled up in a fetal position, crying hysterically, having trouble breathing,” Randles said.

He said he asked the woman what had happened.

“It was hard to understand, she was shaking, but I did definitely hear the word ‘rape,'” Randles said.

He said he called the police, who arrived several minutes later.

Officer Mark Watson of the Ames Police department arrived first on the scene and also testified Wednesday.

Watson said the woman gave a description of the suspect and told police what happened.

He said the woman told him that she had gone home to change her clothes before going to meet her boyfriend. As she was looking in a bedroom mirror, she saw a flash.

“The next thing she knew she was laying on the ground. She had been tackled in her own bedroom,” Watson said.

Watson also said the woman reported being threatened with a 10-pound weight she had in her bedroom.

An ambulance arrived at O’Malley & McGees to take the woman to Mary Greeley Medical Center.

Megan Woodbeck, a registered nurse at Mary Greeley, was on duty in the emergency room the night of the attack. She testified that a sexual abuse kit was used that night to gather evidence.

Woodbeck said the woman had received bodily harm.

Watson said police took several items from the scene of the crime for additional evidence. He said police collected hand weights, articles of clothing that had been ripped off the woman and an article of clothing that had been used to place over the woman’s head during the assault. Police also collected the clothing the woman wore to the hospital to obtain DNA evidence.

Randles testified the woman had stayed after work to have a few drinks. He also testified that she was not impaired in any way when she left to go home.

Woodbeck also testified the woman did not appear to be under the influence.