WATCH LIVE: Police provide update as they search for suspect wanted in connection to gunpoint sexual assault at SEPTA subway station
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia police are looking for a man in a distinctive NASA sweatshirt in connection with an alleged sexual assault. Officials describe the offender as a 5-foot-6, light-skinned male in his 20s.
Police say the victim was on the platform trying on clothes that her boyfriend bought for her when the suspect approached.“Like hey, what’s up? What are you doing” Generalized to that sense,” Captain James Kearney said. “She described the gun as a black Glock-style gun, not necessarily a Glock, but a Glock-style gun with an extended magazine that was green in color,” Kearney said.Investigators tell CBS3 the man was armed with a black handgun and riding a green bicycle.“Us females should feel safe,” SEPTA passenger Tanya Johnson said. “That’s all I want to know, is can we get some kind of security for us? And I hope they catch him so the other women can feel safe.
“I don’t want to see a trend, we don’t want to see a pattern and I believe that justice should be, has to be quick,” Captain James Kearney said.SEPTA released a statement about its security efforts but didn’t directly address the alleged incident at Snyder Station.
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