VIDEO: Sikco accused of raping 82-year-old woman gets away from cops twice after he's tracked to 2 Brooklyn buildings

                                                  

The Brooklyn sicko suspected of raping an 82-year-old grandmother managed to twice narrowly elude officers who had tracked him to two separate Crown Heights buildings, sources said Thursday.

Detectives chased suspect Asa Roberts, 18, to a building on Crown St. on Tuesday night after receiving a tip from an aunt who said he was heading to the area to collect money from relatives, police sources said.

Roberts closed the doors on the investigators and disappeared inside. The detectives waited for back-up. But by the time they began scouring the residential complex, Roberts was gone, sources said.

His black sweatshirt was later found in the back of the building.

The slippery suspect is believed to have changed his clothes inside a pal’s apartment and sneaked out a different exit.

“He must have had a friend in the building who gave him a change of clothes, although I can't believe this guy has any friends now,” a police source said.

The pursuit did not end there.

Several hours after Roberts narrowly avoided capture, officers raced one block over to Carroll St. after his cellphone “ping” was traced to that location, sources said.

Aviation units conducted surveillance overhead and ESU officers went door-to-door. But Roberts, once again, was nowhere to be found, sources said.
A witness told cops he took off moments before they arrived.

Surveillance video showed him escaping the building via its roof. He later turned off his phone, complicating police efforts to track him down, sources said.

Roberts remained on the run Thursday afternoon, three days after the heinous attack.

The aunt who tipped off investigators also told them she received an earlier call from Roberts saying he was in Coney Island and planning to kill himself, sources said.

One of his aunts told the Daily News his mother met up with him at a grocery store on Crown St. at Nostrand Ave. on Tuesday night — and tried to convince him to surrender.

But the teen refused — and somehow slipped past cops.

“They blocked off the whole of Crown and Nostrand, helicopters, dogs, everything,” said aunt Naya Jackson.


“They had the whole precinct there and they still couldn't get him.”