A man stalked, raped and robbed a woman at knifepoint inside a Bronx park yesterday in a disturbing daylight attack. the police said.
NYPD released this morning a video of the suspect seeking his capture. According to the complaint, the attacker waited outside the woman’s apartment near Beech Terrace and Beekman Avenue, and when the 38-year-old victim left her apartment at 8:30 am he punched her.
The suspect, armed with a knife, forced the woman to walk to St. Mary’s Park, where he brutally raped her and stole her debit card. He then ran out of the park heading west on East 141st Street and used his victim’s debit card to make a $3 dollar purchase at a nearby grocery store, according to police.
The woman was treated at an area hospital and is in stable condition. Police do not believe the attacker knew her, although he did attack her in front of her house.
No arrests have been made. Anyone with information should call. at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). also through the page crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
NYPD is also looking for another perverted thief who got out of a car to hit and rob a woman on a Brooklyn (NYC) street and returned minutes later to sexually assault her, Friday morning.
In a similar case, last week a man was accused of kidnapping, beating and raping a woman over the course of four days in the Bronx (NYC).
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