Chicago police looking for suspected serial groper on skateboard terrorizing women in city

CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago police mentioned a person on a one wheel skateboard is sexually terrorizing ladies within the metropolis, groping not less than two on the road.

Paige Ruhnke is considered one of his victims, and may’t shake his face from her reminiscence.

“A hundred percent, I do know it is the man,” she mentioned. “He utterly reached below my shorts and groped me.”

Ruhnke mentioned on Might 11 she was strolling her canine alongside the Lakefront Path close to the Navy Pier flyover in midmorning daylight.

“He is on the one wheel skateboard, comes up behind me and grabs beneath me. I yell at him and he simply laughs in my face and leaves,” she recalled. “I used to be offended, I used to be uncomfortable, I used to be scared. It was only a full violation.”

Motivated by rage and concern, Ruhnke and different ladies have posted a photograph of the alleged offender on flyers round downtown Chicago.

Chicago police mentioned the person has assaulted not less than two ladies and launched their very own images of the suspect in a group alert. Ruhnke mentioned it is undeniably her attacker.

“I’ve simply seen him using round,” Michael Perrino mentioned.

An avid electrical automobile rider himself, Perrino mentioned Monday morning he noticed the skateboarder and pursued him from the lakefront.

“I see the man. So I flip round and began to comply with him. He notices me following him, will get fairly hostile, tells me to watch out,” he recounted. “I comply with him into an alley that he very intentionally turns into. And really intentionally goes to the door of the restaurant.”

Perrino snapped images of who he believes is the offender in River North. Now Perrino is a part of the pursuit to seek out the person that has robbed ladies of their peace and security.

“I need him put away and I need him to should take heed to the victims say how painful that is and the way a lot this has affected their life. I do not need him to get a effective and go on together with his life,” Ruhnke mentioned.

The suspect is described as sporting a white helmet, and sun shades and using a motorized scooter, in response to Chicago police.

Ruhnke mentioned she’s been in communication with as many as 12 potential victims of this suspect, going again to 2021, and encourages anybody who has been victimized by him to proceed to report the assaults to police.