Street harassment can escalate without warning. That’s what makes it so scary. These three stories from this past week alone clearly illustrate this:
“22-year-old Tiarah Poyau was fatally shot at the J’ouvert festival in Brooklyn over the weekend. NYPD said the fatal altercation occurred after Poyau asked a man to stop grinding on her, according to the New York Post.
She was walking down the street with three friends during the pre-West Indian Day celebration when she told the man who invaded her space “get off me.”
Poyau was shot in the eye at close range.
20-year-old Reginald Moise was apprehended. He has five prior arrests. Police say they found the gun used in the shooting at Moise’s girlfriend’s apartment.
Moise was charged with second-degree murder, criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment.”
Via Thailand’s National Newspaper:
“A 23-year-old American tourist suffers spinal injuries falling down a ravine in Krabi while she was fleeing from an alleged sexual assault late Thursday night….
According to the Phuket Gazette, the man who attempted to molest her, identified as Apai Ruangwong, has been charged with committing obscene behaviour toward another person and causing serious injury.
‘He said that he had known the victim for a day. He volunteered to walk her to her place, but couldn’t stop himself from touching her inappropriately.
‘The victim was frightened and ran away to escape him,’ Piyapong Boonkaew, superintendent of Ao Nang Police Station, told the Phuket Gazette.
Apai called rescue workers for his victim, who fell off the high cliff, the officer said.
It was only on Friday that rescue workers could reach her.”
“Police arrested a 31-year-old man Sunday after he approached a woman as she was working in her yard, told her he wanted to have sex with her, and then returned hours later and broke into her home as she was showering.
The victim told police the suspect approached around 3 PM her as she was working in her garden near the 5100 block of 12th Avenue Northeast and informed her he wanted to have sex.
The woman immediately left her yard and went inside her home.
Hours later, around 7 PM, the woman was taking a shower when she heard someone trying to get into the bathroom.
The woman thought it might be one of her roommates and opened the door, only to find the suspect standing inside her home.
The woman began screaming for help, and one of her roommates grabbed the suspect and shoved him out the door of the home.
Officers arrived on scene minutes later and arrested the suspect in a nearby alley.”
