Sicko who lassoed woman around neck, raped her on NYC street showed eerie precision, source says: ‘He’s done this before’
The man arrested in the horrific caught-on-camera attack in which a woman was lassoed with a belt from behind, dragged unconscious and raped acted with an eerie precision, according to a police source.
“I definitely think he’s done it before,” said a Bronx detective, who asked to remain anonymous because he wasn’t cleared to talk to the news media. “It was too clean. Normally, the first time out they make huge mistakes. This was no mistake. This guy was precise.”
Kashaan Parks was arrested Saturday and charged with walking up behind the victim — then tossing a belt around her neck and pulling her to the ground, “causing her to lose consciousness” around 3 a.m. May 1, police said.
“There’s probably more victims out there but what happens is they blackout and don’t remember anything,” the detective said. “How do you get the belt around the neck perfectly like that?”
Parks, 39, was charged with first-degree rape, assault, strangulation, sex abuse, public lewdness and harassment, police said.
He held his head low and was wearing a white, Tyvek suit when he was walked by two detectives from the Special Victims’ Division unit to a car and taken to Bronx criminal court. He didn’t answer questions from reporters about the crime.
He has two prior arrests that are public.
On Oct. 14, 2018, he was charged with third-degree assault and criminal mischief in the Bronx for allegedly hitting a 46-year-old woman several times during an argument and jumping on top of her, cops said.
He punched her once in the head causing a lump, cops said. He also allegedly threw her phone at a lamp, breaking the light, cops said.
Back in 2013, he was charged with theft of services for allegedly entering the rear of an MTA bus without paying. Police were unable to say if he has any sealed arrests.
The victim was brought to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition.
At some point, the victim stopped cooperating with authorities, according to police sources.
As of May 5, a total of 511 rapes had been reported throughout the city, the same total as last year during that period.
