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Pittsburgh Police searching for man accused of assaulting teenage girl

September 13, 2023 / 4:38 AM EDT / CBS Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh police search for sexual assault suspect

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Pittsburgh police are looking for a man wanted for assaulting a teenage girl in May.

According to police, the 30-year-old Thomas Cocco assaulted the teenager when she was waiting for a bus at the Homewood Avenue station.

She asked him if he knew of a place to charge her dying cell phone. He then allegedly took her down the East Busway and assaulted her as well as threatened her with a knife. He took her back to her apartment where he again assaulted her outside.

From there, he let her go.

Anyone with information regarding Cocco's whereabouts is being asked to call police.

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Patrick Damp is a web producer for CBS Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh native who grew up watching KDKA-TV, Patrick studied journalism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After half a decade in sports communication, Patrick decided to pursue his dream of working in journalism in his hometown and joined the CBS Pittsburgh team in 2019.