Police: Man followed woman into Ditmas Park, Brooklyn elevator in attempted rape

Monday, January 2, 2017
DITMAS PARK, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A man is wanted for an attempted rape in Brooklyn.

Police say the suspect followed a 22-year-old woman into an elevator in a building in Ditmas Park on New Year's Day. The man grabbed the victim, threw her down, and tried to remove her pants.


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When the woman screamed, the suspect ran out of the elevator. The victim was not seriously hurt.

The suspect is described as a black man, approximately 20-years old, 5'9", weighing approximately 160 pounds. He has black, short-length hair, and was wearing black work boots and a blue hooded jacket and blue jeans.
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Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
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