Police Search For Suspect In 3 Hamilton Heights Rapes

Police believe that a 69-year-old woman raped in her apartment building at 155th Street and Riverside Drive was attacked by the same man who raped two other women in Hamilton Heights earlier this month. The latest victim was returning home from work at 4 a.m. to 765 Riverside Drive; WCBS 2 reports, "The victim passed mailboxes on her way in through the east entrance of the building. Then [she] proceeded down the stairs to the wood-paneled foyer where her attacker was apparently waiting. The manned elevator is unmanned after 2 a.m., so she had to use the automatic elevator nearby. She opened the door and her attacker apparently crossed the room and followed her" into the elevator, where she was attacked. There's surveillance video of the suspect and the building's shocked residents are asking for additional security and lighting. In the past incidents, the suspect raped a woman in an alleyway near West 148th Street and Broadway and inside another's building near West 144 Street and Convent Avenue.

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By Jen Chung in News on August 19, 2009 9:36 AM

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NannyState

Round up the usual suspects...all 300,000 of them.

upsetnychick

I live in the neighborhood and find it extremely disconcerting to see 4-6 policemen hang out on ONE corner for hours at a time, expecting to "make their presence known" (which obviously isn't doing much). The Harlem police need to get off their a** and be more proactive towards finding this criminal and informing the neighborhood of what is going on and what everyone can do to help.

Soggy

It's sad that a 69 year old even has to work a job that requires her to return home at 4 am, and then to be attacked...Ugh.

Gwinny

Damn, I don't like this (living on 144th Street and all)... of course, I'm never out in the middle of the night, but still. Hope they catch him soon!!