A young woman who nearly died after being raped by a man inside a Queens subway station said she was left bruised and bruised from the horrific assault and constantly looking over her shoulder.
“Now I’m always looking backwards,” 21-year-old victim Jamirez said in the latest news. ABC 7 Eyewitness News Interview. “I can’t walk calmly. I feel like someone is always following me. I don’t know what to do. I feel terrible.”
Her attacker remains at large more than a month after the February 24 attack, and she lives in constant fear.
Jamirez sat on the subway car to rest his eyes on the F train around midnight after finishing his night shift cleaning his office.
When she opened it, she saw a man staring at her, she told the news station.
Later, when she tried to get off at Jamaica’s 169th Street station, he blocked the door while acting creepy, the station reported.
He eventually got off, and Jamirez got off and waited on the station platform to make sure he left, she said.
She tried to climb the stairs from the platform to the mezzanine of the station, but the man was at the top of the stairs.
“He was waiting for me,” she told Eyewitness News in Spanish.
Jamirez said the man followed her down a long hallway until he reached an area of the station blocked off from public view and then fired at her.
The frightened victim told police that the man pushed her down, dragged her behind a wall, punched her multiple times in the face and tried to remove her clothes.
Jamirez struggled to fend off his attacker and screamed for help.
Despite the creep’s attempts to muffle her screams, a security guard inside the station heard Jamirez’s voice and rushed over.
A security guard came to the rescue and scared the rapist away.
Jamirez, who immigrated to the United States from Ecuador just three months ago, was treated at a hospital for his injuries and has since switched to day shifts.
Her attacker is described as 5 feet 10 inches tall and was last seen wearing a white tank top, light blue hooded sweatshirt, black pants, and orange and white sneakers.
Anyone with information about this disturbing crime is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
