Bronx police seek knife-wielding suspect in two sexual assaults

In two Bronx neighborhoods separated by less than a mile, a man with a knife has twice emerged from the shadows — first targeting a young woman, then a child — leaving investigators to reckon with a pattern that speaks to both predatory escalation and the vulnerability of those simply moving through their own communities. The NYPD, tracing the geometry of these crimes, has released footage of the suspect and turned to the public as a necessary partner in the search for accountability. What hangs in the balance is not only justice for two individuals, but the restoration of safety to streets wh