{"id":388029,"date":"2026-10-30T17:16:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T17:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/388029\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T17:16:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T17:16:55","slug":"nypd-hunting-man-who-tried-to-rape-83-year-old-nyc-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/388029\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD hunting man who tried to rape 83-year-old NYC woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police on Friday released pictures of a man wanted for trying to rape an 83-year-old woman he followed into an upper Manhattan apartment building.<\/p>\n<p>Once inside the building, near W. 204th St. and Virmilyea Ave. in <a href=\"https:\/\/cityneighborhoods.nyc\/inwood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Inwood<\/a>, the suspect followed the woman to her apartment where he exposed his genitals and made \u201csexual advances\u201d as he tried to force his way into her apartment, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The woman fought him off and was able to slam the door in the suspect\u2019s face before calling 911, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Medics treated the woman for minor injuries at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Police released surveillance images of a man who they said attempted to rape an 83-year-old woman in a Manhattan apartment building near W. 204th St. and Virmilyea Ave. (NYPD)\" width=\"585\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_9429.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9299219\" \/>Police released surveillance images of a man who they said attempted to rape an 83-year-old woman in a Manhattan apartment building near W. 204th St. and Virmilyea Ave. (NYPD)<\/p>\n<p>The suspect ran away after the woman thwarted his attempt to assault her.<\/p>\n<p>Cops are asking anyone with information about the suspect\u2019s whereabouts to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/services\/see-say-something\/crimestoppers.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime Stoppers<\/a> at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police on Friday released pictures of a man wanted for trying to rape an 83-year-old woman he followed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-388029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-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\/388029","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=388029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}