Park Slope Rapist Also Tried To Assault 17-Year-Old, Cops Say

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — The man who tried to rape a woman in her apartment building near Garfield Place also attacked a 17-year-old the week after just a few blocks away, police said.

Police connected the attempted rape case from Sep. 8, when the man followed a woman into her apartment building, to another attempted assault from Monday, Sep. 16.

This time, around 7 p.m., the man came up to a 17-year-old who was walking near Carroll Street and Eighth Avenue and grabbed her butt, police said. The man threatened to sexually assault the girl, but she was able to run away.

A 50-year-old man that was near the assault ran after the would-be rapist, but the suspect kicked the man and ran away, police said.

The assault was just a few blocks from the Prospect Park West and Garfield Place apartment building where the same man tried to sexually assault the 26-year-old woman just a week before.

In that attack, he followed the woman into the vestibule of her building as she was coming home at 4:30 a.m. When the two were inside, the man exposed himself and tried to grab the woman's waist, trying to stop her from going further into the building, police said.

The man ran away toward Prospect Park West after the woman struggled against him. She was not injured, police said.

Police describe the man as standing about 5'10" to 6'2" tall with a medium build. He was last seen wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt.

They have released a sketch of the man from the first attack and a surveillance photo of him from the second.

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