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Woman Says This Man Grabbed Her From Behind As She Left Work
The alleged groper (Photo via Facebook)
An Orange County woman posted photos of a man she claims groped and harassed her in a parking lot to her Facebook page. Vivian Tran was headed home after work on Friday afternoon. She was walking through a parking lot located at 19191 South Vermont Avenue in Torrance when she says a man she did not know grabbed her from behind.
Tran told NBC 4 that she decided to post the photos she took of her alleged attacker, which have now been shared over 8,000 times, because she feels like had she not gotten away from him, it could have been worse.
"This was the first time I actually felt like I was about to get raped," she said.
Tran is not sure what the man meant by 'six days.'
"He said it in a way as if he was warning me," she said.
LAPD Harbor investigators are calling the man a person of interest in a battery incident, but not a suspect, at this time.
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