{"id":351142,"date":"2026-09-19T15:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351142\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T15:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T15:14:10","slug":"nypd-releases-sketch-of-sexual-predator-who-attacked-woman-in-brooklyns-prospect-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351142\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD releases sketch of sexual predator who attacked woman in Brooklyn&#8217;s Prospect Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYPD on Saturday released a sketch of the suspect wanted for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/09\/18\/predator-attacks-tries-to-sexually-assault-woman-inside-brooklyns-prospect-park\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">attacking a woman in Brooklyn\u2019s Prospect Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-2 suspect, sporting a light-colored baseball cap, choked his 41-year-old victim after he jumped her inside the sprawling greenspace near Wellhouse Drive and Terrace Bridge at about 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Police sources said the suspect first approached the woman as she walked near the Boathouse, trying to strike up a conversation.<\/p>\n<p>The woman walked away from the stranger, but he followed and attacked, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>After choking the woman, he tried to sexually assault her before running off.\u00a0 The suspect was last seen running west further into the park.<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed the woman to a local hospital, where doctors treated her for minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>There are no cameras near the remote area of the park where the attack took place, officials said. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>Police on Saturday released a sketch of the attacker and are asking the public\u2019s help in identifying him.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the baseball cap, the suspect was wearing a light-colored short-sleeve shirt and khaki pants the night of the attack, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding his whereabouts is urged to call <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NYPD Crime Stoppers<\/a> at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD on Saturday released a sketch of the suspect wanted for attacking a woman in Brooklyn\u2019s Prospect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-351142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}