A woman experienced moments of panic after a suspect lto follow on Saturday from the subway to his building and hit her multiple times before fleeing in Brooklyn, New York City Police said.
Surveillance video shows the victim being grabbed and attacked by the suspect after he followed her to her residence from the 45th Street and Fourth Avenue subway station in Brooklyn, police said.
An incident that, according to the victim, left her afraid to use the subway alone.
The 28-year-old woman, an international student from Venezuela studying English in New York City, said in an exclusive interview with our sister network NBC New York that he was on his way to his apartment in Sunset Park after having dinner with friends in Manhattan on Friday night. The young woman said that she left the train station just before 6:00 am on Saturday, when a suspect began to follow her.
“I never thought that someone would come after me, I would never think that someone could follow me (to) do something terrible,” said the victim, who did not want to be identified. “I turned my face and saw the guy behind. For me, it was a shock“.
Police confirmed the suspect followed her back to her apartment building, with security footage showing him grabbing the victim, before she fought back.
“At the time I was thinking, ‘I have to fight him for my life because this is my life, I want to live and I don’t want to live with this trauma,'” he said. “This guy can use my body for pleasure because he is a psychopath.”
Upon arrival, the suspect began to masturbate and make sexual comments. Then, the authorities pointed out, the man would have grabbed the woman with one hand while she continued to touch herself.
However, the nightmare continued when the alleged attacker grabbed her by the neck and hit her several times in the face and body before fleeing.
“My body, I did not know how many punches in the face. I don’t remember how many times she blocked my hands, my fingers are broken right now,” she said.
Paramedics transported the woman to the hospital. NYU Langone Hospital Brooklyn in stable condition, police said in the report.
The victim said she is now too scared to use the subway alone and will not return to her apartment. She wants the city to do more for women in the subway system and said her physical injuries (broken fingers and other injuries) don’t compare to the psychological trauma she has suffered after the alleged attack.
“I know this guy is on the street right now, I know he can do the same thing he tried to do to me, to other girls,” she said.
The suspect has not yet been arrested.
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