Dallas police are looking for a man who sexually assaulted a woman in a parking garage overnight Thursday.
Around midnight, police said the woman was walking through the lower level of the parking garage of her apartment complex on the 2700 block of Howell Street when she exchanged pleasantries with a man while walking to an elevator. After they passed each other, she said she heard someone approaching from behind.
When she turned around the man was holding a weapon.
The woman told police the man forced her back to her vehicle where he sexually assaulted her and took some of her property.
At a news conference Friday afternoon, Dallas police said they will step up patrols in the area.
Detectives are also searching for surveillance video to help identify the suspect.
Residents of the Amli Quadrangle complex, where it happened, say they received an email from management notifying them that a woman was sexually assaulted at gunpoint.
"I’m still like shaking. I’m like, I get home from class late at night sometimes, I’m in grad school, and I thought I was safe to go up to my apartment by myself," said tenant Allison Stoker.
The woman described her attacker as black, about 30 years old and unshaven. He was estimated to be 5 feet 9 inches tall with a medium build. He was wearing a gray durag, dark T-shirt, a light-colored jacket, gray sweat pants and older athletic shoes.
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Detectives hope to speak with anyone who may have seen the man in the garage.
One arrest was made Friday night for what was originalloy a suspicious person call, but police have confirmed the man that was taken into custody matches the description of the sexual assault suspect from Thursday. They are not positively identifying him as the assault suspect at this time.
The Dallas Police Department is asking anyone with any information regarding this crime to please contact Detective Holmes at 214-671-3637.
