Police are looking for a man who choked two women in a popular Brooklyn neighborhood and flashed a third victim over the past several weeks.
Wanted posters were plastered throughout the south side of Park Slope, one of the borough's lowest-crime neighborhoods, after the attacks near Fifth Avenue and 16th Street in the early morning hours of July 20 and July 21, according to the NYPD.
In the first attack, a 34-year-old woman was about to unlock her door when a man approached, claimed to live there and asked to be let inside, according to police. When the woman saw that the man had exposed himself through the zipper to his pants, she screamed and the suspect ran off.
The next morning, a 26-year-old woman was walking on 16th Street when the man approached from behind, pushed her against a parked car and choked her. The woman struggled and screamed, and the man ran off.
The man is also wanted in a third choking attack in the neighborhood. Details on that attack weren't immediately available.
Residents said they were terrified -- and surprised such violent attacks would happen in their normally safe neighborhood.
"I've never felt unsafe -- that's shocking to me," said Victoria Lo. "It's the first time I've seen something so dramatic."
Moraima Suarez felt similarly.
"I come home by train all hours of the day and night, walk the streets -- I don't have concerns like that," Suarez said. "There are plenty of people around -- 24-hour businesses. There's always people on the streets."
Anyone with information on the suspect is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
