Person of interest taken into custody for attempted rape of Central Park sunbather: Sources

The NYPD is looking for the man wanted in a sexual attack on a 21-year-old woman sunbathing in Central Park, June 24, 2024.sunbathing in Central Park last month, police sources told ABC News.

The man, who has not been identified, has not been charged in the June 24 attempted sexual assault of a woman, but the sources said DNA links him to the incident.The 21-year-old woman was alone and sunbathing in the Great Hill section of the park when a man came toward her exposing himself around 1:30 p.m. last Monday, New York Police Department Chief of Patrol John Chell said last week.

"She screams and gets up to run," but "he tackles her from behind" and "tried to get on top of her," Chell said.The New York Police Department released a sketch of the suspect on June 27. The attacker had been described as a Black man in his 30s with curly hair, police said. He has a medium build and is about 6 feet tall, police said.

Police said there were no known patterns for sexual assaults in Central Park, which Deputy Commissioner Tarik Sheppard described as "one of the most iconic locations in the world" for New Yorkers and visitors.

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