Knife-Wielding Man In Dress Arrested After 3 Sexual Assaults

WARREN, MI — A knife-wielding man wearing a dress reportedly went on a crime spree in the Warren area Thursday morning, prompting a lockdown at five local schools. Police said the man sexually assaulted a young woman around 7 a.m. Thursday in the area of 9 Mile and Ryan roads after forcing open a window at the back of her house to get inside. They said the man was wearing a blue floral dress and a shower cap while brandishing a knife.

He reportedly made his way to a park at the corner of Ira Boulevard and Toepfer Road, where he found a grandmother and two small children at the play structure.

Eyewitnesses told WDIV that the man raised his dress, exposing himself to the grandmother, and asked her in front of her grandchildren to have sex. She started screaming, and the man ran away, officials said.

Warren police spread out through the neighborhood with dogs and began to search for the man, prompting a lockdown at five schools: Chatterton Middle School, Great Oaks Academy, Fitzgerald High School, Mound Park Elementary School and Schofield Elementary School.

Police said the man tried to assault a third woman before they caught him several blocks away from the first assault. He is expected to be arraigned Friday.

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