Man wanted for raping 13-year-old girl in broad daylight in Flushing Park on Thursday: NYPD – QNS

An urgent manhunt is underway in northeast Queens after a man of Latino descent allegedly raped a 13-year-old girl at knifepoint in broad daylight in Kissena Corridor Park on Thursday afternoon.

Police from the 109th Precinct in Flushing reported that the teen was in the park near Kalmia Avenue and Colden Street with a 13-year-old boy around 3:30 p.m. when a stranger approached them, threatened them with a knife and chased them both into a wooded area where he tied them up. The assailant then forcibly took their cell phones before sexually assaulting the girl, police said, adding that he fled in an unknown direction.

The two teenagers managed to get out of the wooded area and met a passerby on the northern edge of Kissena Corridor Park who called 911.

Emergency medical services arrived at the scene and transported the victims to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Queens, where they were in stable condition. Detectives conducted video recording of the area. No images are currently available.

The NYPD described the suspect as a Hispanic man, approximately 5’11”, around 20 years old, with curly hair. He was wearing red sneakers and a green backpack, appeared to have braces, and had a tattoo of a wild boar or bull with red eyes on his chest.

Anyone with information regarding this sexual assault investigation is asked to call the NYPD 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 visiting the Crime Stoppers website at crimestoppers.nypdonline.orgor on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) @NYPDTips. All calls and messages will be kept confidential.

Detective Crystal Doxsee of the Queens Special Victims Squad is the lead investigator on this case and can be reached at 718-520-9272.

As of June 9, the 109th Precinct has reported a dozen rapes so far in 2024, five fewer than the 17 reported at the same time last year, a 29.4% decrease, according to the latest CompStat report.