State police arrested a 53-year-old man following a home invasion in Ellington on Sunday.
State troopers responded to an apartment on Jobs Hill Road around 4 p.m. after getting multiple 911 calls about a man who had forced his way into a woman's apartment and held her against her will.
The suspect, later identified as Shannon Irvin, of Windsor Locks, left the apartment and went to a common laundry area where he forcibly held down another woman and attempted to assault her, according to police.
A witness saw the attempted assault and stopped Irvin from attacking the woman, police said.
Arriving troopers found Irvin in a different apartment and took him into custody.
Irvin is facing several charges, including home invasion, first-degree sexual assault, second-degree assault, first-degree strangulation, first-degree threatening, burglary, and first-degree unlawful restraint.
He was held on a $1 million bond and is scheduled to be in court on Monday.
