The mother of the married suspect who was caught on surveillance video strangling and raping a woman on a New York City street on May 1st stayed up all night to get her son to turn himself in to police, the New York Post reported. It was reported on Saturday.
“I turned him in. His mother. I helped arrest him,” Beverly Parks, 56, told the newspaper. The paper said Parks was referring to his son, Casshern Parks, 39.
New York City Police Department (NYPD) announced On Saturday, detectives with the New York City Police Department’s Special Victims Unit in the Bronx arrested Casshern Parks.new york city police Casshern Parks declared wanted on rape charges Friday, claim he “came closer” [a 45-year-old female] They wrapped something around his neck from behind and dragged him to the ground, rendering him unconscious. The man then dragged the victim between two cars and sexually assaulted her before fleeing on foot. According to the NYPD, the incident occurred at 5 a.m. on May 1 near East 152nd Street and Third Avenue in the Bronx.
Thanks to the hard work of the Bronx @NYPDSVU Detective Casshern Parks was arrested and charged. https://t.co/LwOCy7hqQX
— New York City Police News (@NYPDnews) May 11, 2024
graphic video In the incident, a masked man was seen putting a noose around the neck of a female pedestrian passing by, tightening the rope, and dragging the woman limp between two parked cars. The video appears to show the man crouching over the woman while furtively looking around her, her legs not moving between the two cars. (Related article: Viral sexual assault video shows horrifying moment a masked man lassoes a woman by the neck with a belt and drags her behind a car)
Oh, NYPD, I’m sure you can do better than a still image. pic.twitter.com/HdgVfu6u5G
— George (@j0rgeaquino) May 10, 2024
Beverly Parks claims Casshern Parks’ wife told her over the phone that her husband strangled and raped her, according to the New York Post.
“I found out about this yesterday morning at 5:12 a.m. Since then, I’ve been trying to get my son to do the right thing. And I did,” Beverly Parks told the media. insisted.
As a result of the incident, Casshern Parks faces charges of first-degree rape, assault, strangulation, sexual abuse, indecent exposure and harassment, the newspaper reported.
Reports say Kashern Parks, an unemployed father of two, has been drinking and is suspected of recent drug use since learning of his father’s death in a hospital in Belize.Beverly Parks claimed this to the same media.
“He…had a one-year-old baby. It wasn’t like he was walking down the street committing crimes,” his mother told the New York Post. “I held his son accountable for his actions, whether he was drunk or on drugs or grieving. We have to deal with it, period.”
Casshern Parks and his family reportedly returned to New York from his wife’s home in North Carolina shortly before the alleged rape. “That’s why this was such a shock,” Beverly Parks told the New York Post.
The NYPD previously arrested Casshern Parks on suspicion of assaulting a 46-year-old Bronx woman and boarding a bus without paying, the newspaper reported.
Some commenters said, Reply On X (formerly Twitter), he expressed skepticism to the New York City Police Department that the suspect would remain in police custody.
Beverly Parks told the New York Post: “I’m a woman and I’m sorry that this happened to this person.” “I have to open and close my eyes every day and see that this person is okay and ask God to forgive her son. What she has to live with. Even if I don’t, I’ll have to think about it for the rest of my life.”
