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Man Wanted For Following and Choking Women in Park Slope, Police Say

 Police are looking for a man who followed, then strangled women near 16th Street and Fifth Avenue.
Man Wanted for Choking Women in Park Slope
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PARK SLOPE — Police are looking for a man who followed multiple women and choked them on 16th Street near Fifth Avenue, the NYPD said.

The suspect attacked three women on July 20 and July 21, with all of the incidents occuring at around 6 a.m., police said. The suspect followed all three women but choked only two of them, police added.

In the first attack, he exposed himself to the victim, police said.

The suspect was described as about 20 years old and wearing a blue and orange short-sleeved shirt and a backpack in a photo released by the NYPD.

Wanted posters for the suspect recently appeared in businesses along the busy commercial strip of Fifth Avenue near 16th Street.

Anyone with information about the suspect should call Det. Donnamarie Mazza of the 72nd Precinct at (718) 965-6336.