Police search for South Seattle groping suspect

Police are looking for a man who groped a woman in a South
Seattle neighborhood Wednesday morning.

The woman was walking northbound on 43rd Av S. and S.
Webster St.
when she heard someone behind her. A man in a
black mask was following her.

Police say she screamed when the suspect caught up to and
attacked her.

Police sent out Guardian One and a K9 unit, but weren’t
successful in tracking down the suspect.

The victim was not injured. Police have no suspect
description except that he was wearing a black mask,
possibly a ski mask, black jacket, and black pants.

It’s the same type of description given in three other
recent groping attacks:

-7500 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Way S. at 8pm in
early Dec.

-7100 block of Holly Park Dr. S. at 10:30pm on Dec. 7

-36th and S. Oregon St. at 9:30pm on June 7

In the other three cases, police say the suspect is
described as a man in his late teens or early 20’s, 5’8″
to 5’10” 140-160 pounds, and wearing similar clothing.

“It’s a pretty vague description, but it’s pretty much the
same description that we’re getting from the victims in
all four attacks,” said Seattle Police spokeswoman Renee
Witt.

Police aren’t saying the four incidences are related, but
they’re looking at the possibility it could be the same
suspect.