Police are searching for a man who was captured on surveillance video brutally beating and abducting a woman outside an LIRR station last weekend. In the video below, you can see the man punch the victim in the stomach after she exited a train at the LIRR's Ronkonkoma Station on Sunday, March 4, at approximately 7:40 a.m.—and then he proceeds to harass and physically hurt the woman for several minutes around the station before throwing her in the back of his car.
The woman goes into a shop apparently pleading for help—when the man catches up with her, she visibly jumps back. He grabs her by the arm and drags her out of the door; when they get outside, he violently grabs her hair and pushes her around the sidewalk, eventually dragging her by the hair across the concrete. After some arguing and stomping around, witnesses say he threw the screaming woman over his shoulder off camera, carried her to a silver four-door Nissan Altima, tossed her into the back seat, and drove away toward the Long Island Expressway.
The suspect is an African-American male aged 25-30, approximately 5-foot-9 or 5-foot-10, weighing 185 to 210 lbs. He had crew-cut hair or was bald, and was seen wearing a black leather jacket, blue jeans and sneakers. Anyone who knows either the suspect or victim in the video can call MTA police at (718) 361-2207.
