UPDATED: 9/24/22, 10:57 a.m.
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Philadelphia police say they've arrested a suspect in connection with two sexual assaults that they say occurred the same night on the SEPTA Broad Street Line.
Investigators have charged the man with both indecent assaults late Monday night, within a period of 75 minutes. They say he turned himself in early Saturday morning.
The first assault happened at about 10:30 p.m. The victim and the suspect were both on the southbound platform at the City Hall Station, according to police.
"She observes the offender who begins following her," said Lt. John Hewitt of the Philadelphia Police Special Victims Unit.
"He follows her until she gets on the train. They get on the train. She sits down and he approaches her and stands over the top of her."
He said the suspect then groped her.
After the train pulled into the Tasker-Morris subway station, the man jumped off the train and went up to the second victim, according to police.
"He approaches her and asks her for a cigarette. She gives him the one she's smoking. He asks to kiss her. She declines," said Hewitt. "He grabs her around the waist and begins kissing her, and then indecently assaulted her."
Authorities ask that if people have any further information about the case, they should call 911.
