Crime & Safety
Teen Almost Thrown Onto Tracks For Refusing Stranger Sex: Cops
A violent straphanger attacked the young woman in the Cypress Hills station Tuesday morning, police said.
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK -- A straphanger grabbed a teenaged girl by her hair, demanded she perform "a sexual act on him," then tried to throw her onto the J train tracks when she resisted, police said.
The suspect snuck up behind his 19-year-old victim on the Cypress Hills station southbound platform near Hemlock Street and Jamaica Avenue at about 1:20 a.m. Tuesday, police said.
When she struggled to escape his grasp, he tried to throw her into the tracks and then fled the station, said police.
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Police released photos of the suspect, whom they describe as a 6-foot-tall man weighing about 230 pounds, on Saturday.
Anyone with information about where to find the man is asked to contact police.
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