Philadelphia police are investigating after they said a woman was followed and groped in broad daylight in the city\u2019s Kensington neighborhood.<\/p>\n
The incident happened around 12:45 p.m. on Wednesday on Collins Street. Surveillance video obtained by NBC10 shows a man dressed in dark clothing and a black jacket following a woman down the street.<\/p>\n
After trailing the woman for about 15 seconds, the man grabbed and inappropriately touched her from behind before running away, according to police. <\/p>\n
Neighbors in the area said they are concerned the suspect could strike again.<\/p>\n
\u201cA sick person, there\u2019s no way around it, it\u2019s just a sick person,\u201d neighbor Thomas Delgado said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I were to see that situation, I would take care of that situation as soon as possible,\u201d Delgado added.<\/p>\n
Neighbors said the victim was visiting someone on the block and does not live there.<\/p>\n
Jamie La Pierre-Valentine said her surveillance cameras captured the incident. She said the victim came to her after it happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cA pervert, definitely a pervert. Someone who\u2019s looking for power over somebody else,\u201d Pierre-Valentine said.<\/p>\n
Neighbors also said the suspect appeared to be wearing two different kinds of shoes, something they said stood out to them in the video.<\/p>\n
\u201cDude lookout, because there are people out there who aren\u2019t afraid to defend themselves, you could be next,\u201d Pierre-Valentine added. <\/p>\n
Police said the victim has been working with investigators to provide a better description of the suspect. Officers are also searching for additional surveillance video.<\/p>\n
This story was originally reported for broadcast by NBC Philadelphia. AI tools helped convert the story to a digital article, and an NBC Philadelphia journalist edited the article for publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia police are investigating after they said a woman was followed and groped in broad daylight in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8921,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-192602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-kensington","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}