An investigation is underway after a 16-year-old girl was sexually assaulted at a park in Lynwood.<\/p>\n
The assault took place on May 16 at Lynwood Park, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department. The victim was at the park at about 8:15 p.m. when a man sexually assaulted her in the men\u2019s restroom near the park\u2019s baseball fields.<\/p>\n
Investigators have identified a person of interest in the case and LASD said it\u2019s seeking the public\u2019s help in identifying the individual.<\/p>\n
The assailant is described as a man about 30 years old with shoulder-length black hair, brown eyes, a thin build and who stands at 5-feet-5-inches tall. He wore blue jeans, a black shirt and a black sweater at the time of the assault.<\/p>\n
LASD said the man may be unhoused.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information on the case is urged to contact LASD\u2019s Special Victims Bureau at 562-522-4109.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway after a 16-year-old girl was sexually assaulted at a park in Lynwood. The assault…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,21775],"class_list":["post-408740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-lynwood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}