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- A 30-year-old woman was doing laundry in Brooklyn when a man came in with his pants down and exposed himself, police said
- The man demanded the woman engage in sexual activity, but she refused, at which point he sexually assaulted her and tired to rape her
- The woman ran out of the laundry room and was able to ask a neighbor to call 911, the NYPD said. The attacker fled the scene
Police have released a sketch of a man who tried to rape a woman in a Brooklyn laundry room.
The 30-year-old woman was doing laundry in a building near Lincoln Road and Flatbush Avenue in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens around 7:30 a.m. on Friday when a man she didn’t know came in with his pants down and exposed himself, the NYPD said.
The man demanded the woman engage in sexual activity with him, but she refused — at which point he told her he had a knife, sexually assaulted her and tried to rape her, police said.
The woman ran out of the laundry room and was able to ask a neighbor to call 911, the NYPD said.
The man who attacked her fled the building on foot, according to police.
Police are now searching for an approximately 6-foot-4 man in his mid 20s who was last seen wearing a black hat, a black sweatshirt and black sweatpants.
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Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS.
