NEW YORK (TNND) \u2014 A man was accused of trying to force his way into an 83-year-old woman’s Manhattan apartment and sexually assault her, according to the New York Police Department (NYPD).<\/p>\n
Suspect wanted for trying to rape 83-year-old woman in her Manhattan apartment: NYPD (Video: The New York Police Department)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Now, police are urging the public to help them identify the suspect. <\/p>\n
The NYPD said the suspect followed the woman into an apartment building in the Inwood neighborhood on Monday shortly before 9 a.m. As she walked inside, he allegedly exposed himself, made sexual advances, and tried to force his way inside.<\/p>\n
The woman fought him off after a brief struggle, police said, with the suspect eventually running away. Emergency medical workers treated her at the scene for minor injuries, police said.<\/p>\n
The NYPD released a surveillance video of the suspect and asked the public for help identifying him. The suspect was described as having a beard and was last seen wearing black pants, a black jacket, boots, and a black cap. Police said he was wanted in connection with an attempted rape.<\/p>\n
No arrest had been announced as of Friday, and the investigation was ongoing.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the suspect or the incident was asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS. Tips can also be submitted online or through the department\u2019s social media channels. The NYPD says all calls to Crime Stoppers are confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (TNND) \u2014 A man was accused of trying to force his way into an 83-year-old woman’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-387965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387965","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=387965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}