QUEENS — The NYPD has identified the fourth suspect in the brutal sexual assault on a woman shortly after she left a Jamaica church last week, although the man remains at large, police officials said Monday.
The 20-year-old suspect was identified as Isaiah Shorter, Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said Monday during an unrelated press conference.
Shorter has 14 prior arrests, mostly for theft of service, Boyce said.
“We’ve been looking for him all weekend and we will continue to look for him,” he said.
Shorter, police said, is one of the four men who NYPD officials say robbed and sexually assaulted the 50-year-old victim shortly after she had left the Celestial Church of Christ on Liberty Avenue on July 11.
Police so far arrested three of them — Brandon Walker, 20, Julisses Ginel, 19, and Justin Williams, 17 — who they said confronted the woman at gunpoint around 11 p.m. on 150th Street near Beaver Road demanding she hand over her wallet and MetroCard, according to the criminal complaint.
Walker then told the woman to undress and perform oral sex on them. She initially refused, prompting Ginel to yell, “If she doesn’t suck our d---s, shoot her, shoot her,” according the criminal complaint.
The four men all lived in a nearby half house on South Road, police said. A staff member at the facility reported suspicions to the police leading to the arrest of the first three suspects several days later.
The victim identified all three men in a line up, officials said.
The men, who were charged in the attack last Friday, are being held at $500,000 bail each and are due back in court July 28.
