Cops seek suspect in Ronkonkoma LIRR station assault
A screenshot from an MTA surveillance video showing a man police say assaulted and abducted a woman at the LIRR's Ronkonkoma station on March 4. Credit: MTA
Metropolitan Transit Authority police are looking for a man who assaulted and possibly abducted a woman at the Ronkonkoma train station.
MTA police on Friday released a video showing the man punching a woman in the stomach and knocking her to the ground. The man follows the woman into a train station, pulls her outside the station and then grabs her by the hair.
Once outside, the man knocked the woman to the ground again and pulls her out of view of video cameras that recorded the attacks, police said.
The assault happened Sunday, March 4 about 7:40 a.m., police said.
Witnesses told police that after the video ends, the man hoisted the woman over his shoulder and threw her in the backseat of a nearby car against her will. The suspect then drove away in the direction of the Long Island Expressway, police said.
Police are looking for a light silver, 4-door Nissan Altima made in the late 1990s or early 2000s.
Police ask that anyone with information about this incident call the MTA Police at 718-361-2207.
All callers will remain anonymous.
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