Police: Woman Fights Off Attempted Rape, Attack Caught On Video
A desperate search is underway in Harlem for a man police say tried to rape a woman inside her building.
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A desperate search is underway in Harlem for a man police say tried to rape a woman inside her building.
Police say the suspect was driving recklessly on West 135th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard on Monday morning.
In an exclusive interview with CBS2, the 28-year-old victim said her attacker followed her onto an elevator at her building near West 138th Street.
Police say a young woman was stalked and groped by a stranger who followed her into an elevator in Harlem.
At least seven people were taken to Harlem hospital, where they were treated and released for neck and back pain.
Police said the driver who caused the crash fled the scene on foot.
Police said around 5:45 p.m. Thursday, a 66-year-old victim was approached from behind on West 114th Street and then slashed on the left side of his face by a stranger.
Authorities say the man followed a 22-year-old woman into a building and tried to pull her pants down.
Police said 22-year-old Antonio Staton took Alandria Clark's nearly 2-year-old son and then abandoned him blocks away Thursday morning.
Alandria Clark's nearly 2-year-old son Devine, nicknamed DJ, was found alone outside a brownstone on West 132nd Street around 11 a.m. Thursday.
Behind a bandage is a painful gash that now runs deep along the Bronx mother's temple, just centimeters from her eye.
Sources tell CBS2 the man is an ex-boyfriend of the child's mother, and he abandoned the boy to get back at her after an argument.
Police said the woman can be seen walking by the suspect on 125th Street Monday night when seconds later, he turns around and slashes her on the face.
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It happened shortly after 2 p.m. Friday at Pee Dee Steak House on West 125th Street.
Now home from the hospital, he's left with a deep knife wound in his neck, scratches on his arms and a fear of going back to work.
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Police say a 28-year-old man brandished a knife and advanced toward officers who were responding to a 911 call.
It happened shortly before 8:30 p.m. inside the supermarket at Lenox Avenue and West 125th Street.
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