NYC crime: Police search for suspect after woman raped in Central Park near Swan Lake
Two intercourse assaults had been reported Thursday morning — one in Central Park and one a couple of miles away. After preliminary hypothesis that the assaults might be linked, police later decided they weren’t.
Within the first assault, a lady in her 20s mentioned she was grabbed from behind and put in a chokehold at East 62nd Avenue and Fifth Avenue, close to Swan Lake and Wollman Rink, simply after 7:20 a.m.
She misplaced consciousness and awoke with cuts, abrasions and bruises to her arms and chin.
The suspect fled the scene.
The girl was taken to Mount Sinai West Hospital for remedy and is in secure situation.
About 45 minutes after the primary assault was reported, one other girl mentioned she was sexually assaulted on a operating path on Randall’s Island throughout the footbridge from 103rd Avenue and FDR Drive.
The 54-year-old sufferer was knocked her to the bottom and choked round 7:40 a.m., and the suspect then tried to take away her pants.
Police responded, witnesses pointed the suspect out to the officers, and the 38-year-old man was taken into custody.
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The sufferer was being handled for bruises to her face at Mt. Sinai Morningside, the place she is in secure situation
Police say the suspect in that case, Howard Shaw, is a Degree 3 intercourse offender who was simply launched on parole Tuesday after serving 9 years in state jail on assault and intercourse abuse fees.
Shaw was charged Thursday with tried rape, strangulation and forcible touching.
Sexual assaults are unusual in Central Park. However Thursday’s is the sixth sexual assault reported within the 840-acre park to this point this year-compared to 2 by this time final yr.
Anybody with info is requested to name the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
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