LOCAL CRIME STOPPERS ALERT

Pontiac Rapist Sketch Released by Police

from WDIV Detroit TV 4

Pontiac police said they are on the hunt for a suspected rapist and they released a sketch of a person of interest. Over the weekend, a man raped a woman and then tried to attack a second woman 30 minutes later. The first incident was reported to have taken place in Murphy Park around 10 p.m.

A boyfriend and girlfriend were sitting in a parked car when they told police a black man approached them and pointed a silver handgun at them. The boyfriend told police he was ordered out of the vehicle by the man and asked to empty his pockets.

When officers arrived at the scene with the boyfriend the woman was gone. After searching the park, the woman was located and told police she had been raped. The area had been secured with tracking dogs, and the Oakland County Sheriff's Department allocated helicopter and good patrols but the man was not located. Police are now waiting for DNA samples to come back from a lab.

At 10:31 p.m. on Saturday another woman reported being approached and robbed while sitting in a parked car in Beaudette Park. A black man showed her a gun and ordered her out of the car. She said the man had her open her trunk and then he took her purse and fled in a dented green Dodge Neon. Police said the man's description matches in both incidents.

The man is being described as black and in his 20s, 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet 1 inch tall, with a thin build, mustache and short-length black Afro. The man was last seen wearing a dark winter jacket with a hood. Those who have any information on the man are being asked to contact Pontiac police at (248) 857-7890.