DETROIT (AP) — A 37-year-old mother recounted in a Detroit courtroom how she was robbed while pushing her 7-month-old daughter in a stroller, forced behind a vacant house, raped and shot in the back when she tried to escape.

The woman shed tears on the stand Thursday during the preliminary examination for an 18-year-old Detroit man charged with sexually assaulting her in the April 12 daylight attack and raping two other women on separate occasions.

The Associated Press does not name victims of sexual assault. The woman was the only witness Thursday against Job Hughley, who later was ordered by 36th District Court Judge Lydia Nance Adams to stand trial.

Hughley also was ordered last month to stand trial after two women testified he raped them. One said she was raped in an alley. The other said she was raped near a school and in another location.

Hughley is charged with several first-degree criminal sexual conduct counts, kidnapping and armed robbery in connection with the three attacks.

The victim in the April 12 attack said she was returning from a store when a man walked up, announced a robbery and indicated he had a gun. She said she gave him two $100 bills hoping he would leave. Instead, he forced her to push the stroller several blocks and behind an abandoned house.

"He said he would kill me and anyone who tried to help," she said. "I couldn't defend myself. I had my baby. He kept his gun in his hand. He never put it down."

The woman said she was forced to take off her clothing and raped. When the man told her to push the stroller inside the vacant house, the woman said she decided to flee.

"I started screaming for help. He was shooting," she testified.

After feeling a "sting" in her back, the woman said she "just dropped." Passers-by called police. Hughley was arrested later.

The woman said she spent about two weeks in the hospital. The slug cracked a bone in her spine, fractured a rib and damaged part of a lung, she said.

Her child was not injured.

Defense attorney Evan Callanan, Jr., said after Thursday's hearing that he expects Hughley to be seen by doctors at a state forensic center.

"The investigation of the mental defenses is going to start now," Callanan said.