Suspect Sketch Released In NYC Home Break-In, Sexual Assault: NYPD

BROOKLYN, NY — A man who broke into a Brooklyn home and sexually assaulted a woman while she slept still hasn’t been identified, and police are asking for help finding him.

On Tuesday, police released a sketch of the suspect accused of breaking into a Bushwick apartment around 3:30 a.m. Monday. Investigators say he entered through a kitchen window while the 43-year-old woman was asleep in her bed near Pilling Street and Evergreen Avenue.

According to police, the man placed a pillow over the woman’s head before tying her wrists together and making sexual advances as she tried to fight back.

He then snatched her cell phone and watch from her bedroom before running away on foot, cops said.

As of Wednesday, the attacker remains at large, and police are continuing efforts to track him down. He was last seen in a surveillance image wearing a white baseball cap, black sweatshirt, dark pants, black sneakers and carrying a dark backpack, according to the NYPD.

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org, or on X @NYPDTips.