Aug. 21--Police say they are questioning a person of interest in three attacks against woman in the Lincoln Park neighborhood this month, including the sexual assault of a woman near the DePaul University campus Thursday morning.
The man was taken into custody Friday morning, a day after police released a surveillance photo of the suspect.
The attacks happened around 3:45 a.m. Aug. 9 in the 1900 block of North Bissell Street; around 12:25 a.m. last Saturday in the 100 block of West Goethe Street; and around 1:40 a.m. Thursday in the 900 block of West Belden Avenue, according to a police alert.
In the latest attack, a 21-year-old woman was walking home when a man approached her, knocked her to the ground and assaulted her, police said. The man fled when she screamed. She was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in good condition.
In the Aug. 9 attack, a man grabbed a woman and assaulted her, police said. In the Saturday attack, a woman was walking home when she was approached from behind and held by a man, police said, but she was able to fight him off.
Police described the suspect as possibly Hispanic with olive skin and short dark hair, 25 to 45 years old, 5-foot-5 to 5-foot-9, weighing 160 to 180 pounds. He was last seen wearing a dark short-sleeved polo shirt with white horizontal stripes and jeans cuffed at the bottom.
