Police say that a woman walking on a Brooklyn street was threatened and sexually assaulted twice by two different suspects in one hour.
Both attacks occurred on Sunday, August 31st. At 5 a.m., police say the 32-year-old woman was walking in front of 187 Gates Avenue when a suspect pushed her to the ground and sexually assaulted her. The suspect claimed he had a gun and would use it but did not display it.
Then, at around 6 a.m., the victim was in front of 58 Irving Place when a second suspect pushed her to the ground and sexually assaulted her. Again, the second suspect claimed to have a gun and said he would use it, but never displayed it.
The Post reports that police are looking into the possibility that "two pals...targeted the woman." Their source said, "Both incidents bear extreme similarities, so we aren’t ruling that out (that one suspect tipped off the other). The similarities (between both sexual assaults) are hard to ignore."
The suspect in the Gates Avenue incident is described as a being about 5'7" and was last seen wearing blue jeans and a red t-shirt. The suspect in the Irving Place incident is described as being around 6' and 170 pounds; here's video of the second suspect:
Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS. The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers Website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or texting their tips to 274637(CRIMES) then enter TIP577.
