Friday, January 01, 2016

NBC4 Washington: "Woman Speaks After Violent Attack in Bloomingdale"

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A woman walking down a street in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of D.C. was pushed down a lower-level stairway before Christmas by a man who threatened to kill her and tried to rip off her shirt.

The victim of the violent attack on the 100 block of Seaton Place NW told News4 she wants her neighbors to be aware of the dangerous man at large.

"I want people to know that there is an attacker out there," she said, asking that her name be withheld.

About to start her Christmas vacation, the Bloomingdale resident of several years was walking east from the Shaw-Howard University Metro station after 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 22 when a man called out to her.

"I heard somebody give a catcall. I didn't even turn around and look at it," she said.

Suddenly, just a block from her front door, a man grabbed her from behind. He dragged her off the sidewalk and tried to force her beneath the front porch of a house.
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