NYC woman raped at knifepoint while walking home in Queens: cops

A Queens female was raped astatine knife-point while stepping location early Friday by a man wearing a “Scary Ghost Face” t-shirt, cops said.

The 50-year-old unfortunate was astatine 162nd Street and 89th Avenue successful Jamaica erstwhile nan alien walked up from down and threatened her pinch nan weapon earlier raping her astir 3 a.m., according to cops.

The attacker, whose garment featured an illustration of a shade pinch a knife, took disconnected southbound connected 89th Avenue and nan unfortunate was taken to a infirmary successful unchangeable condition.

News of nan onslaught near vicinity residents connected edge.

Dario Martinez, a retiree successful his 80s, has lived successful nan area for much than 20 years and said he was shocked, but not surprised, by nan rape.

“Oh my God!” he said pinch his eyes and rima wide unfastened erstwhile informed of nan incident. “At nighttime you person to beryllium careful. It’s vulnerable astir present — very, very bad. I’m not surprised. By 9, I don’t urge anybody stepping astir here, particularly nan elderly.”

A vicinity resident who identified herself only arsenic Carmen, 82, said she is acrophobic to spell outside.

“After 6 o’clock successful nan evening I do not spell nowhere,” she said. “If I spell out, I person to person a conveyance to return maine and bring maine back.”

Feisty 58-year-old Latrenda Frazier, who takes attraction of her aged mother, said she would person fought bony and nail if nan man had attacked her.

“You person to trim me, sprout me….but you are not having activity pinch me,” she said. “I would shout, I would scream.  I would conflict back. He would person to termination maine aliases he’s going to get killed — it’s either or, but he is not doing that to me.”

She felt “really bad” for nan victim, she added.

“She astir apt is traumatized,” Frazier said. “I dream she regains her confidence.  That’s not an easy point to spell through.”

The alleged rapist is described arsenic having a ray complexion, being betwixt 20 and 30 years old, opinionated 5-foot-6 and weighing astir 120 pounds pinch achromatic hair, cops said.

He was wearing a achromatic shot headdress pinch a achromatic Adidas logo, achromatic and achromatic Air Jordan 3 sneakers and a achromatic sweatshirt emblazoned pinch reddish lettering, surveillance photos released by constabulary showed.

Anyone pinch accusation regarding nan incident is asked to telephone nan NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline astatine 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) aliases for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).  The nationalist tin besides taxable their tips by logging onto nan Crimestoppers website astatine https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, aliases connected X @NYPDTips.