Help Needed To Identify Man Who Assaulted, Robbed Teenage Girl At Metro Green Line Station

INGLEWOOD (CBSLA.com) — Authorities asked for the public's help Friday is needed to identify and capture a man who brutally assaulted and robbed a teenage girl of her phone in a Metro Green Line station.

The assault happened at the Metro Hawthorne Green Line Station at about 8:57 p.m. on Nov. 3 of last year, Los Angeles County Sheriff's transit detectives said.

As a teenage girl walked past a man on the lower level of the station, the man struck her from behind while pulling at her purse, which was strapped around her shoulder. While struggling, the man punched her in the face continuously and kicked her several times in the torso, detectives said.

When the girl fell to the ground, the man stopped his attack, reached down toward the girl's hip area, took a cell phone and left the train station, authorities said.

The girl was taken to a local hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.

The attacker was described only as a Hispanic man, but authorities released a composite sketch.

Anyone with information about the attack or recognizes the composite sketch, call the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Transit Policing Division at (213) 922-3649.