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A suspect has been arrested following the brutal rape of a New York City woman who was lassoed from behind with a belt and dragged away.
Kashaan Parks was arrested on Saturday and charged with attacking the 45-year-old woman on May 1.
A huge manhunt had been underway for the 'person of interest' since Friday when the NYPD released his picture and asked for assistance finding him.
Parks, 39, is awaiting arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court, the New York Post reports.
He was named as a suspect nine days after the savage attack in the South Bronx.
Kashaan Parks was arrested on Saturday and charged with the brutal rape of a New York City woman
Parks, 39, was reportedly filmed lassoing a woman around the neck with a belt before raping her
Police released these images of the father-of-one and asked for the public's help in locating him on Friday
The victim was walking near East 152nd Street and Third Avenue around 3 a.m. when Parks allegedly crept up behind her.
Parks then reportedly placed a belt around the victim's neck, causing her to go unconscious, before sexually assaulting her, the NYPD said.
While security footage of the incident has gone viral on social media, cops said they were not made immediately aware of the situation because the victim did not report it.
In fact, it wasn't until the victim was arrested for petty larceny that officers found out about the incident. She cooperated and identified Parks as the man who assaulted her.
'Our victim indicated that she had seen him before; she actually described his teeth to us; he had unusual teeth,' Chief of Patrol Joseph Kenny told amNY. 'She said he has space between his teeth.'
Surveillance video reviewed by DailyMail.com showed the woman walking ahead of who police suspect to Parks, who had tied a white cloth around the lower half of his face.
He looped a belt around her neck and yanked her to the ground, and while the woman struggled, she quickly fell limp.
A woman was choked unconscious and sexually assaulted by an unknown man as she walked through the Bronx in the early hours of May 1
The NYPD confirmed that the woman was walking near East 152nd Street and Third Avenue when an unknown man placed a belt around her neck. He knocked her unconscious before sexually assaulting her
Surveillance video shows the man dragging the victim's limp body between two parked cars
Parks allegedly dragged her down the sidewalk and between two parked cars. He reportedly looked around before bending over the woman's body, which is obscured from sight.
The police believe the attack happened following an earlier conversation between the two people that night, which involved having sex in exchange for money.
They say the conversation involved the victim being offered money for sex.
However, according to the police, when this agreement didn't happen, Parks became extremely angry and allegedly strangled the victim with a belt before raping her.
Parks has been identified as the father of a young daughter and lists himself as in a relationship on social media.
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