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Surveillance video from the entrance of the Chrystie Street apartment in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood shows Christina Yuna Lee, 35, entering the building around 4:20 a.m. and a man pushing the door open as it closed behind her and following her inside, according to a complaint filed by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
The man, identified by investigators as Assamad Nash, allegedly followed Lee up to the sixth floor of the walk-up apartment while remaining about a flight of stairs below her, according to the video evidence described in the complaint.
When Lee reached the apartment and entered, the man ran to her door and pushed his way inside, according to the complaint. Someone in the building heard a female voice screaming for help, coming from the area of Lee’s apartment, and police responded to a 911 call of a dispute, the complaint says.
Responding officers heard a woman calling for help from inside the apartment when they arrived at about 4:25 a.m., the complaint says, but could not get into the apartment at that time. It’s unclear why officers couldn’t immediately enter the apartment. CNN has reached out to the NYPD for comment.
“They hear the victim calling for help from inside the apartment but then she goes quiet,” the complaint says.
“The defendant imitated a voice of (a) woman when he was in the apartment and said they didn’t need police,” the complaint says.
According to the complaint, at one point, Nash attempted to flee the apartment.
“The Defendant tries to get out through the fire escape but sees an officer on the roof above him and goes back in — the officer saw a yellow object in his hand,” the complaint says.
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Source : cnn
