Police are searching for a man who was caught on camera attacking and attempting to sexually assault a woman who was working at a Miami Springs vape shop.
The worker said the incident happened on Nov. 9, when the man walked in around closing time and appeared friendly at first, asking her questions.
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She said he suddenly moved towards her and then dragged her to the back of the store, where he put a shirt over her face and sexually assaulted her.
"He was trying, once again, like I said, touching my (expletive), trying to pull my pants off, and I was just asking him not to do it, please not to do anything to me, and fighting back," the woman told NBC6.
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Surveillance cameras inside the store captured the frightening encounter.
"Please get away!" she's heard screaming.
The attack lasted a few minutes but the woman was able to fight back, punching the man and grabbing a toilet plunger and beating him with it.
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The man fled the store and now police are searching for him.
"I want every girl to know what happened to me, so that if they ever go through something like that, they are able to speak up, and just know that it is not their fault," the woman said. "It’s not your fault that you have to go through something like that, and that there is people like him out there."
Anyone with information is asked to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS.
