{"id":351280,"date":"2026-09-19T19:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T19:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351280\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T19:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T19:54:49","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-sketch-released-of-man-wanted-in-prospect-park-attempted-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351280\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Sketch Released Of Man Wanted In Prospect Park Attempted Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police released a sketch of the man who they say attempted to rape a 41-year-old woman inside Prospect Park on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The attack <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/nypd-special-victims-unit-investigates-attack-inside-prospect-park-sources-say\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">happened at around 9:30 p.m. near Wellhouse Drive and Terrace Bridge<\/a>. According to investigators, the man walked up to the woman, placed his hands around her neck and choked her.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD says he then attempted to sexually assault the victim before he took westbound inside the park.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police initially reported that the victim turned down medical attention &#8211; they now say paramedics took her to a nearby hospital. She is expected to recover physically.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators say the suspect is around 6 feet 2 inches tall and was last seen wearing a light-colored baseball cap, a light-colored short sleeve shirt and khaki pants.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD urges anyone with information to call its Sex Crimes Hotline at 1-212-267-7273 or 646-610-7272.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police released a sketch of the man who they say attempted to rape a 41-year-old woman inside Prospect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-351280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351280","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=351280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}