Police from the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica are looking for a suspect who subjected a 17-year-old girl to sexual abuse onboard a Q8 MTA bus on the night of Friday, Nov. 15.
As the bus was approaching Sutphin Boulevard and 94th Avenue, just down the block from the Long Island Rail Road Jamaica Station, the stranger approached the girl at around 7 p.m. He allegedly forcibly touched her and then pulled her down onto his lap before running off the bus, police said Tuesday.
The victim was not injured during the encounter.
The suspect was last seen running toward 101st Avenue and 133rd Street nearly a mile away, three blocks west of the Van Wyck Expressway in South Richmond Hill.
The NYPD released surveillance images of the suspect on Tuesday and described him as having a light complexion with a thin mustache and beard. He wore an olive green vest over a blue hooded sweatshirt, black pants, black and yellow sneakers, and a black backpack.
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 crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are kept confidential.
Through Nov. 17, the 103rd Precinct has reported 109 sex crimes so far in 2024, 29 more than the 80 reported at the same point last year, an increase of 36.2%, according to the most recent CompStat report. Transit crimes are also rising in the precinct, with 30 reported so far this year, 10 more than the 20 reported at the same point in 2023, an increase of 50%, according to CompStat.
