Terrifying moment woman dashes into her Bronx apartment and slams door in face of creep who was chasing her down hallway
Footage released by police shows a woman making it into her Bronx apartment with seconds to spare as a man charges after her.
The NYPD said the woman, 50, was arriving home to her Claremont Village apartment at around 2am on September 23 while the suspect, wearing a white tank-top and a jeans, was stalking her.
She begins unlocking her door, nervously looking down the hall, before managing to open it.
Just as soon as she steps through the apartment entrance, the man comes into view, turning the hallway corner and bounding towards the open door, which she quickly slams shut.
Footage released by the NYPD shows a woman entering her Bronx apartment as a man was hot on her heels
Just as soon as she gets the door open, the man comes into view and rushes toward the open doorway as she slams it shut
Greeted with the closed doorway, the suspect tries to turn the doorknob and even rings the doorbell before walking off
Police are still seeking the man, and he is wanted for attempted burglary
Greeted with the closed door, the man is seen attempting to turn the doorknob, and ringing the bell.
He soon walks away in frustration.
Police are still seeking the suspect, and he is wanted for attempted burglary.
The incident came as crime rates in multiple areas have continued to top those recorded last year.
While burglaries and robberies this week are down 22.9 and .4 percent respectively from the same period last year, others such as assault, shootings, rape and grand larcenies are up.
Shootings are up 3.8 percent, and nearly double the number recorded the same week in 2019. Rapes are up 2.2 percent and assaults are up 7 percent. Instances of hate crimes, are also nearly double those recorded in 2020.
Monthly statistics show what while burglaries decreased 14.9 percent for September, robberies were up 6 percent, and assaults up 18.5 percent.
Overall crime in the city increased 2.6 percent in September.
Just a block away and a week prior, gang members were seen on surveillance video brandishing pistols, firing at an unidentified target across the street
The gunfight took place in the middle of East 169th Street just before 10pm on September 16
Several people were seen ducking for cover as the area turned into a turf war between rival gangs
Just a week prior, and roughly a block away from the attempted burglary, gang members were caught on camera brandishing pistols in a shootout on the streets.
Video shows seven of the members firing at an unidentified target at around 10pm on September 16.
Several of the men fired shots before sprinting away down the street, while two others crawled to take cover behind a parked car.
One other individual drops to the floor, covering his head with his hands and a hood, but emerges without any injuries.
The footage then cuts to another angle in which two other men wearing hoods can be seen firing pistols back at the gang as they backed away.
Police are searching for the suspects shown in the video composed from several clips from street CCTV cameras on East 169th Street.
Crime rates in several areas, including rapes, shootings and assaults continue to top those seen the prior year for the past week
Last Monday, the FBI released its round up of 2020 crime figures which revealed that the US experienced the biggest increase in homicides year-to-year since records began in 1960, with an additional 4,901 homicides in 2020 compared with the year before.
Murders in New York City specifically soared 47 percent from 2019 to 2020, with a staggering 70 percent of shootings going unsolved.
Meanwhile Mayor Bill de Blasio last Thursday announced that the NYPD would instead be focusing on customer service, with an announcement of a new initiative.
He described the new $5.7million initiative, which would involve stationing a community guide at each precinct stationhouse to greet visitors at the door, as 'revolutionary' and a 'paradigm shift' at his daily press conference.
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a new customer service initiative for the NYPD Thursday that would involve posting community guides at each precinct
'Customer service has to be what the NYPD is about,' he said, noting that, 'Its never existed previously,' in the agency.
'It is simple, it is basic, it is powerful,' he said.
He said the program was in response to years of complaints about officers who were 'gruff and dismissive.'
'So many people who just were trying to exercise their rights to get information or file a concern or complaint, find out what's happening with a case, they were treated in a way that doesn't have anything to do with customer service or respect,' he said.
The community guide would be a dedicated customer service representative - and an NYPD employee - responsible for greeting visitors and answering their questions.
NYPD Patrol Chief Juanita Holmes said Thursday that addressing violent crimes would always be the NYPD's priority, but that it also needed to build better relationships.
'If we don’t have a relationship with the community,' she said, 'it’s never going to be a success for New York City.'
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