PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Authorities have charged one man and hope to identify five others in a brutal sexual assault and robbery in the Callowhill section of Philadelphia over the weekend.
Around 4:40 a.m. Saturday, police said a group of white males, believed to be in their late teens and early 20s, forced their way into a spa along North Ninth Street. Officials said they sexually assaulted and robbed some of the female employees at gunpoint.
Police responded and tried to arrest the men as they fled from the roof. They caught one of the suspects, 18-year-old Saidakhmad Bakiev, of Northeast Philadelphia.
Saidakhmad BakievPhiladelphia Police Department
He has been charged with aggravated assault, rape, burglary, robbery, sexual assault, false imprisonment and several other related charges.
Officials are now searching for the five others. They are possibly of central Asian or Russian descent.
Anyone with information is asked to submit an anonymous tip online, or text or call 215-686-8477.
