MOTT HAVEN, Bronx (WABC) -- Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the rape of a woman in the Bronx.
30-year-old Tyreke Schenholster of Yonkers is charged with rape, robbery, criminal sexual act, criminal use of a firearm, sex abuse and menacing.
Police said the man pretended to have a gun when he randomly approached a 27-year-old woman Sunday morning near St. Ann's Avenue and East 135 Street in Mott Haven.
He's accused of forcing her into a building and making her perform a sex act before raping her. He then took off with $40.
The victim went to Lincoln Hospital where she was treated and released.
The NYPD released a picture of the suspect.
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