The NYPD arrested Khari Covington after another woman was attacked in Brooklyn (NYC), and the same person is believed to be responsible for assaulting at least one other person at a Bushwick subway station.
Surveillance video captured a man pouncing on a woman shortly after 5 pm Monday at the victim’s workplace, the Sunflower Glass Company Smoke Shop, on Wilson Avenue. He held her and hit her several times, and when she tried to get up, he grabbed her hair, trying to prevent the victim from sending a help message from her computer.
“Honestly, I could have killed her chen he had her strangled right there, ”said Benjamin Bates, the woman’s co-worker. Previously, the suspect was seen loitering nearby and had even bought something at that business, it reported. CBS2.
Covington (29) was arrested yesterday and charged with seven counts of assault as hate crimes and theft. Researchers now believe that this same man is responsible for brutally beat at least nine women on the streets of East Williamsburg and at the Morgan Avenue subway station Since August. Most were young with white skin, bounded New York Post.
Police had arrested Benny Watts (50) last week in connection with the attacks, but all charges against him have been dropped.
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