Search for sex abuse suspect in the Bronx

UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS (WABC) -- Police are searching for a suspect who sexually abused a woman in the Bronx.

The attack happened on Thursday August 21st at 9 p.m.

The victim, a 34-year-old woman, was walking inside her apartment building on Morris Avenue, in the University Heights section of the Bronx.

That's when the suspect approached her from behind and sexually abused her.

The suspect then fled the scene.

The suspect is a black male in his early twenties, 5'6" tall and weighing 150 pounds.

Anyone with information in regards to this sexual abuse is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS.