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4th Suspect Charged in Sex Attack on Jamaica Churchgoer, Police Say

By Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska | July 21, 2017 1:39pm | Updated on July 24, 2017 7:02am
 Isaiah Shorter (inset), the fourth suspect in connection with the brutal sex assault of a woman in Jamaica after she left a church service on July 11, has turned himself in Friday.
Isaiah Shorter (inset), the fourth suspect in connection with the brutal sex assault of a woman in Jamaica after she left a church service on July 11, has turned himself in Friday.
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QUEENS — The fourth suspect in the vicious sexual assault on a woman shortly after she left a Jamaica church last week turned himself in Friday, police said.

Isaiah Shorter, 20, surrendered Friday morning at the 77th Precinct house in Crown Heights, according to published reports, although a spokeswoman for the NYPD could not immediately confirm the location. Shorter, who is originally from Rochdale Village, was charged with robbery, criminal sexual act, criminal use of a firearm, sexual abuse and menacing, police said. 

Authorities said that Shorter, who has 14 prior arrests, mostly for theft of service, is believed to be one of the four men who robbed and sexually assaulted the 50-year-old victim July 11 after she had left Celestial Church of Christ on Liberty Avenue.

Last week, police arrested Brandon Walker, 20, Julisses Ginel, 19, and Justin Williams, 17, in connection with the attack.

Authorities said the men attacked the woman at gunpoint around 11 p.m. on 150th Street near Beaver Road, and stole her wallet and MetroCard, before forcing her to perform oral sex on them.

The four men all lived in a nearby halfway house on South Road which opened last year without notifying the local community, locals said.

Walker, Ginel and Williams face the same charges, including criminal sex act, robbery, criminal use of a firearm and sex abuse, prosecutors said. Additionally, Walker and Williams were also charged with menacing.

Shorter was arraigned Friday night and bail for him was set at $500,000. He faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted and is due back in court on July 28.