Pasadena Woman Sexually Assaulted After Leaving Fitness Center

PASADENA, TX — A man who sexually assaulted a woman in Pasadena Monday night, may be involved in at least two other sexual assaults in the Houston area, police said Wednesday.

In this latest incident, the rapist is Police are looking for the man who followed a young woman home from an area fitness center and raped her. The incident happened just after midnight on May 14 in the 2000 block of Lamar Street.

The woman told police that she’d left the Fitness Connection in the 3900 block of Spencer Highway to go home after a workout.

The woman said she arrived home and was walking to her front door, when a young Hispanic man came up behind her with a gun and forced her back into her car.

The man forced her to drive to the 2000 block of Lamar Street where he sexually assaulted her, police said.

He then fled the area in an unknown direction. Police are looking for a Hispanic male between 18- to 22-years-old, between 5-feet-2 and 5-feet-4 with a thin build. The man was clean shaven and was wearing slick gray sweat pants and a black cotton hoodie.

Police obtained video surveillance of a green Ford Mustang seen in the parking lot of the subdivision that was driven by the suspect, and believe he followed the woman to her home.

VIDEO: Suspect Vehicle in fitness center parking lot

Anyone with information on this case is asked to contact Detective J. Stephens at 713-475-7896.

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