David Woodford testified that he woke up in the early hours of June 10, 2007, to the sound of his teenage stepdaughter screaming, "Get off of me! Get off of me!"

He hurried toward her attic bedroom and found himself face to face with a man sliding down the attic stairs. They struggled, and the man escaped, but not before Woodford tore off a scrap of the intruder's T-shirt.

Thursday morning, Michael Tyrone Terry pleaded no contest to attempted rape and entering a dwelling at night with intent to commit rape.

Assistant Roanoke Commonwealth's Attorney Chrystal Smith said that it was Terry whose torn scrap of shirt wound up in Woodford's hand that night. According to evidence, Woodford also identified Terry out of a photo lineup.

Woodford testified that he had never met Terry before that night.

At the time Terry lived on Elm Avenue, a couple blocks away from Woodford's house on Mountain Avenue in Southwest Roanoke.

When questioned by police, Terry at first denied he was ever in the Mountain Avenue home. Yet after he was confronted with video images showing him leaving his own home just before 4 a.m. that night and returning with a torn shirt, he admitted he had been in Woodford's house.

Prosecutors presented their evidence against Terry to a jury Wednesday. Thursday morning, after Roanoke Circuit Court Judge Charlie Dorsey denied a defense motion to strike the charges, Terry changed his plea from not guilty to no contest. Dorsey convicted him of the charges.

Terry's sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 18.