'I Need Help,' 43-Year-Old Woman Repeatedly Says After Being Raped, Robbed While Jogging

A 43-year-old woman was raped and robbed while jogging along West Side Highway in Manhattan, New York, Thursday morning. She managed to seek help from another jogger after the assault.

The suspect was later arrested and is currently facing charges.

The incident took place while the victim was jogging near Pier 45 at around 5:30 a.m. The suspect, Carl Phanor, 29, approached the woman from behind before grabbing her and choking her, ABC News reported.

Phanor knocked the woman to the ground and raped her, the New York Police Department said, as per the outlet. He then fled the scene on foot with the woman's phone, wallet, debit card and headphones.

The victim was left shoeless and bleeding from her arm and elbows. She asked for help from another jogger, who called 911.

The woman was taken to the hospital and was reportedly stable.

Phanor, who was reportedly homeless, was arrested the same day after using the stolen card at a Target store in Midtown Manhattan. He was also charged in connection with raping another woman on March 27 and attacking another on the East Side of Manhattan on a separate occasion.

Charges against him include sexually motivated robbery, robbery, grand larceny, strangulation, predatory sexual assault and criminal sex act.

Gabrielle Sumkin, 23, said she was the jogger who helped the victim after Thursday's incident.

The Greenwich Village resident said she was jogging on her usual route when she saw the distressed woman bleeding and covering her eyes with her hand. The victim could barely speak, according to the Good Samaritan.

"She was in workout clothes but they were kind of torn up, they were dirty, she wasn't wearing any shoes, she was just wearing one sock," she told the New York Post in an interview.

"This woman seemed like she was legitimately very hurt and it was clear that something had happened to her," Sumkin recalled.

She said she slowly went up to the victim and spoke to her.

"She was just kind of saying 'I need help, I need help,'" she said.

"She had like clearly been through physical trauma," Sumkin added.

"I didn't want to ask her about what happened so I was just kind of asking, 'What can I do? I can call someone,' so I didn't really ask her, she was just kind of saying, 'I need help,' like repeatedly," she said further.

Sumkin waited with the woman until first responders arrived and then left the scene. It was only when she saw news reports about the incident that she found out the woman was raped.

Sickened by the news, Sumkin told ABC News, "It's disgusting. I'm a staunch feminist. I support women. People who commit crimes like that are at the absolute bottom of my list."