Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez on Monday said that a Brooklyn man was charged with attempted rape, robbery as a sexually motivated felony and other crimes for allegedly grabbing a woman jogger from behind, throwing her to the ground and attempting to rape her in Shirley Chisholm State Park.
Gonzalez identified the defendant as Amadou Kane, 22, of East New York. He was arraigned on Monday before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Michael Kitsis on an indictment in which he is charged with first-degree robbery as a sexually motivated felony, first-degree attempted rape, first-degree attempted sexual abuse, attempted forcible touching and related charges, according to a press release.
On September 12, 2023, at approximately 4:30pm, the victim, a 51-year-old woman, was jogging in Shirley Chisholm State Park when she saw a man ride a bicycle towards her and then past her. Moments later, she was grabbed from behind, thrown to the ground and punched multiple times. While wrestling with the man on the ground she pulled off his mask and allegedly recognized him as the man on the bicycle.
The defendant allegedly told the woman he had a knife and that he would kill her. He then allegedly told her to pull down her pants and he began to pull down his pants. The defendant fled when he heard a stranger approaching on a motorcycle, taking the victim’s Apple watch from her wrist.
The victim called 911 and ran to a nearby park ranger for help. New York State Troopers conducted a canvass for surveillance video and captured the defendant fleeing the park on his bicycle to a nearby shop where he used Apple Pay to buy a bottle of water.
“This defendant is alleged to have followed the victim during a daylight jog and attempt to rape her," Gonzalez said. "Luckily, he was foiled by a stranger. Thanks to painstaking work of state troopers and my office, he was identified and will now be brought to justice.”
