of assault on college student. now, police do have a 55 year old man in custody. now they are looking into whether he is that man responsible forehand full of assault on college student then the week alone. it is the scene of the most recent attacks. forty-first and pine streets where university of pennsylvania grad student is hit in the head and nearly robbed. it is terrifying. it is not a great feeling knowing you cannot be safe in your own neighborhood. scary, i mean, i would advise caution. it is just one of many attacks on u penn and drexel student then the week, the latest happened around 6:30 thursday evening. police say woman is walking alone on pine street, when a 55 year old man hit her with a bike lock. strikes her in the back of the head with a bicycle lock. and demand her purse, and there is non-uniform officers in the area because of recent rash of robberies that have been occurring. they see the offender, dragging the victim, about 50 yards, they immedi
where university of pennsylvania grad student sent hit in the head and nearly robbed. it is terrifying, not a great feeling knowing can you not be snafu own neighborhood. scary, i would advise caution. just one every many attacks on u pen and drexel student then the week, latest happened about 6:30 thursday evening. police say a woman is walking alone on pine street. when a five a year old man, hit her with a bike lock. strikes letter in the back of the head with a bike lock. and demand her purse, nine officers in the area because of recent rash of robberies that have been occurring. and they see the offender, dragging the victim, about 50 yards, immediately jump out of their car and able to rescue her. as agent end taken into custody. now police believe this man could be linked to other cases. earlier on thursday, there were two broad daylight assault, as drexel university, on monday 23 year old woman was sexually assaulted at 47th and chestnut, and on saturday, an
reporter: police want to be clear that the the woman that was living in johnson s house they are treating as a witness to the crime not as a suspect, only miguel diaz is charged with murder. the right now he is a at the police station, he will have an a rain. on monday. we are reporting live, cleve bryan, cbs-3 eyewitness news . cleve, thanks very much. a man, who was caught by police during a violent attack on a woman is expect to be arraigned at the any moment now. eyewitness news reporter justin finch is live in university city where we re learning new information about this suspect and a possible link to other attacks. justin. reporter: well, chris that arraignment as you a said due at anytime. we know police will use dna to link this man to the possible attack, they have very strong video evidence already linking him to four attacks, and here at university city, people are relieved to hear of his capture. after several days, on a alert, some relief has come to
and when a dispute came up regarding money related matter, it led to a physical altercation which led to the death of miss johnson. reporter: police considered johnson a good samaritan who may have helped the wrong person . would i like to say thinks rare and i don t want to discourage people but you have to use caution as there are predators out there in the community that victimize everyone, every day. reporter: he will ab arraigned on machine but gloucester township police want everybody to know that one of the things that was really crawlings in this investigation was that a co-worker of susan johnson called reporter in missing whether he she didn t show up to work. that kind of vigilance is helpful when looking for a missing person. reporting live, i m cleve bryan, cbs-3 eyewitness news . all right, cleve thank very much. a man they say they caught violently attacking a woman in university city is linked to four other attacks in the area that suspect ace wait
in philadelphia this is cbs3 eyewitness news . actually through his arms up and screamed. it to noon eyewitness news exclusive. two hero police officers talk about taking down a suspect as they say he violently attacked a woman. good evening, i m chris may. jessica is off tonight. just a short timing a police in southwest philadelphia charged that man for an tack in university city. natasha brown spoke exclusively with those officers who were just in the right place at the right time. she s life now at southwest detectives with that conversation and new information on the suspect. natasha? reporter: well, chris, a short time ago we were able to speak with the two officers who witnessed and interrupted last night s violent attack on a 38-year-old woman here in southwest philadelphia. they do tell us that they were extremely happy to be in the right place at the right time. veteran patrol officers anthony britain and jim ballmer were already on high alert. canvas