Man assaults woman in Manhattan Beach mall restroom
An El Segundo woman claimed that a man struck her and threatened to sexually assault her last week in a Manhattan Village Mall restroom if she didn’t hand cash over to him, police said. The victim, a 28-year-old woman, claimed to police that on May 9, she entered a stall in a public, women’s restroom in the mall, and, shortly after, heard a voice outside the stall say something that “tricked her” into opening it, authorities said. No one else was present in the bathroom at the time. The woman told police that when she opened the stall door, a man threatened to sexually assault her if she didn’t give him money. She said that the man grabbed her and struck her arm against the stall door several times while trying to grab her purse. “She cried and kicked the suspect, then he fled the bathroom,” Rosenberger said. “She did not see where he went.” A mall security officer found the woman lying on the floor outside the bathroom, crying, and called police. No witnesses saw the suspect. Rosenberger said that the woman suffered bruising and mild to moderate injuries to her arm, though none of her property was taken. A crime scene investigation conducted by the MBPD didn’t reveal much, police…
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