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This image taken from surveillance video shows a man believed to have mugged and sexually assaulted a 73-year-old woman in New York's Central Park.
This image taken from surveillance video shows a man believed to have mugged and sexually assaulted a 73-year-old woman in New York's Central Park.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the woman told police she thinks her assailant may have been a man she photographed exposing himself in the park days earlier.
She told police she was attacked at about 11 a.m. Wednesday in a wooded area near the park's tranquil Strawberry Fields that serves as a memorial to John Lennon.
After sexually assaulting her, the man made off with her backpack that contained a camera, police said.
Eric Ozawa, a college professor and birdwatcher, found the woman and called 911.
Authorities released surveillance images of the suspect, wearing black pants, a black T-shirt and white sneakers.
Source: The Associated Press
