Shocking moment a woman is abducted off the street in NYC
Shocking moment when a woman in her 20s is kidnapped from a New York street by a man and crammed into the back of a Toyota minivan
- A woman in her 20s was kidnapped on a Brooklyn street in the early hours of Friday
- Photos released by the NYPD show a man approaching and then picking her up
- According to police, he put her in a Toyota minibus and drove off
Shocking NYPD footage shows a woman abducted off the street in Brooklyn.
According to police, a man approached the woman around 1:45 a.m. Friday, picked her up and carried her into a Toyota minivan, according to footage released by police.
Police say the van then took off with the woman in it. The incident occurred along Avenue W and Stillwell Avenue in the Gravesend section of the borough. The car headed north on Stillwell.
As he approaches her, the man has his arms up as if trying to stop her or get her attention.
Police were alerted to the incident by an eyewitness who went to the 60th precinct to report what they had seen. As of Saturday morning, there have been no reports of anyone going to the police station to report an arrest.
This photo released by police shows the moment the woman was picked up by the man and carried to a Toyota minivan
Images show how the man approaches the woman as if he is trying to get her attention or to stop her
The car in which the woman was put, according to the police
The woman is in her 20s, about 5 feet 8 inches tall, 120 pounds, with long hair, a striped shirt, blue skirt, and white sneakers.
The suspect is wearing a black shirt, dark pants and black sneakers. He appears to be in his thirties, about five feet tall and weighs 175 pounds.
Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS, or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA. You can also submit a tip online here.
A reward of up to $3,500 will be offered for information.
The kidnapping took place at the same spot where 22-year-old Rasard Deas was shot dead in May 2022 at New Food First Cook Chinese restaurant.
Neighbors told NBC New York in the days when gunshots were not ‘uncommon’ in the area that has become ‘plagued with crime’.
Last month, a man punched a woman in the face get on a train around midnight in the area after asking him not to touch her again.
In December 2022, a similar violent attack on a woman occurred when 53-year-old Jean-Francois Coste was inside the Stillwell Avenue station and he punched a female MTA employee while intoxicated.
Tanya McCray, 56, was about to start her shift when she saw Coste — a senior equity analyst at Tocqueville Asset Management — trying to access an employee-only room.
McCray, a 21-year veteran of the MTA and train operator, told police that when she denied Coste entry, saying he couldn’t get in, he punched her in the face.
Friday’s kidnapping happened in the area in front of the Marlboro Housing Projects.
While crime is currently the same as last year, many New Yorkers remember the times during the pandemic when crime was rampant and left many in fear
Crime has been a major problem for major cities, especially in New York, Chicago and San Francisco.
Violations rose nearly 23 percent in New York City by 2022 under the leadership of first-year mayor and former police officer Eric Adams, who was forced to allocate additional police to the subway system to control skyrocketing crime.
In addition, more than 43,000 asylum seekers have flooded the Big Apple since last spring, prompting the city to set up emergency shelters at hotels and build massive housing units for the migrants.
While many migrants have since moved out of the hotels, a significant number of The Watson have refused to take up the city’s offer to send them to the Red Hook housing facility in Brooklyn, causing headaches for longtime residents of Hell’s Kitchen.