RAPE SUSPECT CAUGHT! Cops Make Arrest in Bronx Belt Rape

Suspect Arrested Hours After NYPD Releases Photo

The NYPD has made an arrest in the belt attack rape in the Bronx.

By Dan Gesslein

Bronx Voice

May 11, 2024

BRONX - Cops made an arrest in the horrific rape in the Bronx in which the attacker caught his victim using a belt around her neck. 

The NYPD announced the arrest of 39-year-old Kashaan Parks who gave his residence as a Best Western Hotel on East 185th Street. Parks was charged with first degree rape, assault, strangulation, sex abuse, public lewdness and harassment. 

Kashaan Parks was arrested and charged in the May 1st rape. -Photo by NYPD

Details about the arrest have been few at this time as the story is developing. 

Parks was arrested less than 15 hours after his photo was released by the NYPD. 

Despite the fact that the video of the rape showed the attacker with a sheet covering his face, a subsequent video showed a suspect in the area wearing the same clothing without covering the face. Cops then used that image to identify Parks who has a previous mugshot. 

The video of the attack has gone viral across social media. In the video, a woman is seen walking down the block when a man with a sheet covering his face, runs up behind her. With a belt looped into a noose, he throws the belt around her neck. The attacker pulls and drags the victim backward to a spot between parked cars. 

Cops said the man attacked the 45-year-old woman at around 5 am on May 1st, in the vicinity of East 152nd Street and Third Avenue. When he pulled the woman to a spot between two parked cars, the attacker kept wailing on his victim until she blacked out, cops said. He then proceeded to rape her in the street.   

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