Arrest After DNA Matches in Rapes in Manhattan

clipped from www.nytimes.com Arrest After DNA Matches in Rapes in Manhattan By RALPH BLUMENTHAL A 21-year-old man stopped for questioning and DNA testing last week in four rapes in Upper Manhattan was arrested Sunday night after his DNA matched evidence from all four attacks, the police said. The suspect was identified as Vincent Heyward, 21, of 281 Edgecombe Avenue, just blocks from where the last sexual assault took place, on Sept. 7, said Paul J. Browne, the chief spokesman for the New York New YorkPolice Department. “He fit the description to a ‘T’ ”, Mr. Browne said. He said Mr. Heyward surrendered peacefully on Sunday night after six hours of negotiations with a relative. The arrest appeared to end the fear that has been stalking Upper Manhattan after the nighttime rapes of four women in little more than five weeks. Buildings and storefronts had beenplastered with police sketches of the suspect in a dark hoodie.

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