New Details: The NYPD says the same man is wanted for three attacks on women in or near Riverside Park over the past few days. See the latest.
shared an update on the investigation Friday morning, saying they connected a third incident.
"Based on the similar crimes and the proximity of locations, we believe and treated these incidents as being committed by one perpetrator," NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said. The first attack took place around 4:40 p.m. Tuesday inside the park near West 79th and West 80th streets on thePolice said a woman was approached by a man who groped her and made some kind of statement before taking off.Later that night around 10 p.m., another woman was jogging on a bike path at 89th Street when she was grabbed from behind and sexually assaulted. Police said she screamed, and the suspect rode off on a bike.
Then around 4 a.m. Thursday at 59th Street and Riverside Park, a woman was tackled to the ground. Police said she tried to call 911, but the suspect took off with her phone. "It's scary. It's scary," Madison Bollaert said."It could've been me. It could've been anyone.
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