A $10,000 reward for the tip resulting in the seize of the wicked rapist who assaulted a 13-year-old woman in a Queens park stays unclaimed — regardless of locals banning collectively to assist nab the suspect, sources instructed The Publish.
No tipster had come ahead to assert the prize as of Thursday, practically two days after police — with assist from good Samaritans — busted Ecuadorian migrant Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi, 25, within the heinous rape in Kissena Park, sources stated.
The arrest got here after a five-day manhunt knowledgeable by a torrent of suggestions from the native Queens group, from surveillance video offered by neighbors and shopkeepers to a 911 name from a girl — Angela Sauretti — who noticed Inga-Landi outdoors a bodega, police and witnesses stated.
One good Samaritan, Jeffrey Flores, instructed The Publish he waited outdoors a 108th Avenue deli close to the park all day as a result of he knew the suspect frequented it — after which tied up Inga-Landi after a crowd beat up on him.
“We’re New Yorkers and we stick collectively,” stated Joseph Kenny, the NYPD’s chief of detectives, on Fox Information. “Once we one thing’s incorrect, we band collectively and make issues proper.”
The reward was provided a day after the June 13 assault, through which police stated an “animal” compelled the sufferer and a boy, each 13, right into a secluded wooded space in Kissena, Park at knifepoint, tied them up and raped the woman.
Sources instructed The Publish that $3,500 of the reward got here from the Crime Stoppers Program, with the remaining sum coming from the New York Metropolis Police Basis.
If and when a tipster comes ahead to assert the reward, a police basis committee will assessment the declare and divvy out the prize accordingly, sources stated.
The reward, if paid, can be given out in a $3,500 chunk for a suspect’s indictment and a further $6,500 piece upon conviction.
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