Man Who Tried To Rape Woman In Inwood Alley Arrested, Cops Say

INWOOD, NY — A Yonkers man has been charged with attempted rape after forcing a woman into a side alley in Inwood last week, police said.

Andre Gilmore, 33, was arrested on Monday in Downtown Manhattan and charged with attempted rape, burglary and a criminal sex act for the April 22 assault, police said. Gilmore is from Yonkers, records show.

He is accused of knocking on the front vestibule door of a 32-year-old woman's apartment building near Sherman Avenue and Academy Street after she had just went inside around 8:20 p.m., police said. The woman opened the door, thinking Gilmore lived in the building, and started walking to her apartment, police said.

But, Gilmore then grabbed the woman from behind as she was walking up the stairs and forced her outside, into a side alley, police said.

Gilmore tried to take off her pants, was unable to do so, and forced the woman to perform a sex act before running away, police said.

The woman was brought to Allen Pavilion Hospital, where she was treated and released.