{"id":387780,"date":"2026-10-30T11:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/387780\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T11:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:34:08","slug":"creep-wanted-for-attempting-to-rape-83-year-old-woman-in-her-manhattan-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/387780\/","title":{"rendered":"Creep wanted for attempting to rape 83-year-old woman in her Manhattan apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A vile creep tried to rape an 83-year-old woman in her Manhattan apartment, according to cops who released a video of the suspect looking over his shoulder while walking nearby.<\/p>\n<p>The sicko followed the elderly woman into a residential building near Vermilyea Avenue and West 204th Street just before 9 a.m. on Monday, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>As the woman entered her apartment, she was followed by the creep who \u201cexposed himself while making sexual advances\u201d while trying to force his way into her home, the NYPD said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.85276968;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41590986\" width=\"503\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/suspect-wanted-connection-attempted-rape-146958405.jpg\" alt=\"Collage of security camera photos of a suspect wanted in connection with an attempted rape.\" class=\"wp-image-41590986\"\/>Police are hunting a suspect accused of trying to rape an 83-year-old woman inside her Upper Manhattan apartment. DCPI<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.77777778;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41590982\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/suspect-wanted-connection-attempted-rape-146958433.jpg\" alt=\"Surveillance image of a suspect wanted in connection with an attempted rape, walking on a sidewalk near wooden pallets and stacked water bottles.\" class=\"wp-image-41590982\"\/>The man followed the woman into her building near Vermilyea Avenue and West 204th Street, police said. DCPI<\/p>\n<p>She was able to fend him off after a \u201cslight struggle,\u201d according to police, and the assailant took off on foot.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was treated by EMS at the scene for minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police have released surveillance footage of the bearded suspect walking on the street in boots, black pants, a black jacket and a black do-rag.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vile creep tried to rape an 83-year-old woman in her Manhattan apartment, according to cops who released&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,12193,57,9,24,63,103,3018,2956,19301,58],"class_list":["post-387780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-manhunts","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-rape","tag-senior-citizens","tag-sexual-predators","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387780","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=387780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}