A NASA engineer who appeared in a parody music video of Houston’s Johnson Space Center has been arrested in Texas on suspicion of sexually assaulting two women he met on a dating app.
The suspect, Eric Sim, 37, has already been released on $500,000 bail from a Houston jail, investigators said.
In December 2012, when Shim was still a student, the Johnson Space Center’s YouTube account posted a music video starring Shim that parodied South Korean rapper PSY’s hit song “Gangnam Style.”
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NASA engineer Eric Sim appeared in a 2012 viral music video shared by NASA’s Johnson Space Center. (NASA Johnson/YouTube)
Sim imitated Cy’s dance moves and bounced around the center singing modified lyrics to “NASA Johnson Style” with young women, astronauts and other NASA employees.
“He presents himself as a nice, educated person,” Harris County Attorney Gianna Oswald told Houston’s ABC 13. “He has a reputable job at NASA and is on a dating app, which is something you’d think you could do.” Given his background, you’re incriminated. Please believe that it will not happen. ”
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But the allegations have a dark twist for potential romantic partners. The suspect refused to take “no” for an answer and is accused of drugging one of the women and intimidating the other.
Both assaults allegedly occurred at Simm’s Houston-area home, but prosecutors told Fox News Digital that Simm may have additional victims and police are actively investigating them. he said.
NASA engineer Eric Sim dances in a still taken from a parody music video posted to the Johnson Space Center YouTube account. (NASA Johnson/YouTube)
“There are potentially women involved, not just in the Houston area, but probably around the world,” former FBI agent Nicole Parker told Fox News Digital on Wednesday.
She said the case had “eerie” similarities to other cases involving dating apps and date rape drugs such as GHB.
“He used the fact that he worked for NASA to gain the trust and confidence of women,” she said.
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Sim’s lawyer denied the accusations, telling KHOU-11 that his client was “shocked and devastated by these false allegations.”
His lawyer, Neil Davis, told the program: “I think they are starting to attack him with the gravity of the allegations. He is looking forward to proving his innocence.”
