Police have arrested a man in connection with the rape of a 12-year-old girl in a Brooklyn NYCHA apartment building.
Eric McMichael, 27, was taken into custody around 3:35 p.m. Friday and charged with rape, burglary, sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child. According to police, his listed address is in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn.
Investigators said the child was ambushed Thursday walking into the Cooper Park Houses, a public housing complex in East Williamsburg.
The attacker grabbed the girl and raped her in a stairwell before he fled the scene near Morgan Avenue and Skillman Avenue just before 6 p.m.
McMichael has four prior convictions, according to police, including a rape in 2019. He was also convicted of burglary that same year, plus grand larceny and robbery in 2023.
Via combined sources.