Syracuse man guilty of sexual attack on Landmark Theater actress: ‘Do you want to die?’
Updated Apr 01, 2021;
Syracuse, NY -- A Syracuse man was taken to jail in handcuffs Thursday after being convicted of attempted kidnapping as a sexually motivated crime in the random attack on an out-of-town actress performing at the Landmark Theater in 2019.
Clifford Woods, 40, was caught on police video grabbing the woman as she walked past the Clinton Plaza Apartments, 550 S. Clinton St., around 4:30 p.m. Sept. 30, 2019. The 32-year-old actress was following her cell phone’s directions to a nearby pharmacy on Gifford Street to buy her mom a birthday card, prosecutor Anthony Copani told a jury.