Terrifying surveillance footage captured a New York woman bravely fight off a creep who followed her home from a subway train and who sexually assaulted the victim in the hallway of her apartment building.
The 28 year-old woman, who does not want to be named, was filmed bashing at the man she branded a ‘psycho’ in the hallway of her Sunset Park home in the early hours of Saturday. Her creepy assailant had stalked her home from the subway, then flew at the woman – an English student originally from Venezuela – while pleasuring himself.
The victim’s brave attempts to fight the creep off also resulted in her being beaten up by the furious pervert.
Speaking exclusively to NBC New York, the victim said her attacker had spotted her at the subway station and, unbeknownst to her, followed her home.
‘I turned my face and I see the guy behind. For me, it was a shock,’ she said.
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An international student from Venezuela (left) was attacked by a man who had spotted her in the subway and followed her to her apartment building in Brooklyn (right)
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When the 28-year-old woman entered her apartment building in Sunset Park, the man proceeded to masturbate and then grabbed the victim, as seen on security video
The stranger entered the apartment building where the woman lives near 44th Street and Third Avenue, and proceeded to pleasure himself while making sexual comments directed at the woman, according to the police.
The suspect then grabbed the female student with one hand, while continuing to touch himself with the other, as seen on security video from the building.
‘In this moment I was thinking, “I have to fight him for my life because this is my life, I want to live and I don’t want to live with this trauma,”‘ she said, recounting her decision to resist.
When the man saw that the victim was putting up a fight, he grabbed her by the neck and punched her repeatedly in the face and body, before running away.
![The woman put up a fight, as seen on video, prompting the attacker to punch her in the face and body](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/03/01/15/54806625-10564923-The_woman_put_up_a_fight_as_seen_on_video_prompting_the_attacker-a-23_1646147469210.jpg)
![The victim suffered multiple injuries, including broken fingers](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/03/01/15/54806623-10564923-image-m-22_1646147460297.jpg)
The woman put up a fight, as seen on video, prompting the attacker to punch her in the face and body. The victim suffered multiple injuries, including broken fingers
![The 28-year-old student is now too scared to take the subway, or return to her apartment](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/03/01/15/54806619-10564923-image-m-24_1646147475737.jpg)
The 28-year-old student is now too scared to take the subway, or return to her apartment
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Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying the perpetrator of Saturday’s assault, seen exiting the subway station
The victim was taken to a hospital to be treated for multiple injuries, including broken fingers.
Three days after the attack, the 28-year-old said she is too scared to take the subway by herself, and she is staying away from her apartment.
The woman called on city leaders to take actions in order to better protect women in the subway system, which has seen a spike in violent crimes.
‘I know that this guy is in the street right now, I know that he can make the same he tried to do with me, with other girls,’ she said.
Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying the suspect, who was last seen wearing a dark-colored jacket with a hood over a baseball cap, and carrying a backpack.
The New York Post reported that a strikingly similar incident took place in Sunset Park in 2020, when police said a man followed a 25-year-old woman home from the same subway station, stole her valuables and masturbated on her.
Saturday’s attack came two weeks after Christina Yuna Lee, 35, was fatally stabbed inside her apartment on the Lower East Side.
Lee, an advertising creative, exited a cab and was followed into her building by a man who slipped in before the door closed behind her.
She was then knifed to death inside her home. Her assailant has been named by police as Assamad Nash, a 25 year-old serial criminal who was on bail for another assault at the time of the murder.
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Police said Assamad Nash, 25, a homeless career criminal, followed Lee home and attacked her, leaving her bloodied body in the bathtub.
Last month, New York City Mayor Eric Adams rolled out the Subway Safety Plan meant to crack down on violence in crime-ridden transport system.
As part of the initiative, 1,000 police officers have been deployed on several subway lines to boost public safety.
A week after Adams’ announcement, Dr Nina Rothschild, a NYC Department of Health scientist, was kicked down a flight of stairs and struck repeatedly with a hammer at the Queens Plaza subway station, leaving her in a critical condition.
On Sunday, police picked up 57-year-old William Blount in connection with the savage attack, charging him with attempted murder, robbery and assault.
So far this year there have been 320 crimes in the transit system – a 60 percent increase compared to the same period last year.
Crime across the board is on the rise in New York, with murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, grand larceny and hate crime rates all increasing.
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