Surveillance released of suspect in Park Slope groping

  Eyewitness NewsNEW YORK (WABC) -- The NYPD is issuing a warning about a sexual predator on the loose in Brooklyn.

Surveillance video shows the man police say approached a woman walking near 16th Street and Fourth Avenue in Park Slope.

Police say he groped the woman and ran away.

The incident happened around 5 a.m. Wednesday.

The suspect is described as in his 40s, about 5-foot-4 and wearing a red baseball cap and camouflage pants.

Some 20 women were sexually attacked around the neighborhood last year.

Detectives are trying to figure out if this case is linked to any similar incidents in the area last year.

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Groping suspect shot by officer on subway

  Eyewitness NewsHARLEM (WABC) -- An off duty police officer shot a groping suspect during a struggle on a subway platform in Harlem on Friday afternoon.

Authorities said the man was identified by two women as a groper who assaulted them in a Harlem subway platform.

The off duty NYPD officer, a 19 year veteran assigned to transit, first talked to a teenager who was with her mother when she said she was groped. A second woman then also told the officer she had also been groped, and the officer told the teen's mother to call 911.

Officials said the off duty officer then approached the alleged groper, identified himself as NYPD,and the confrontation followed.

In the struggle, the officer's gun discharged, striking the man once.

He was taken to Harlem Hospital and expected to survive.

Police say the 22 year old man has 20 prior arrests.

The officer was not injured and police believe he happened to be at the right place at the right time.

One bullet was recovered at the scene, believed to be the officer's, as was a folding knife on the tracks that may belong to the suspect.

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