A woman was slashed and cut in a Fairfax County shopping mall Monday evening in what may be the latest of a series of similar incidents, Fairfax County police said.
The woman was attacked after her attention was drawn to the sound of a package dropped behind her, said police spokeswoman Lucy Caldwell.. The woman felt a sudden pain and turned to see someone walking away. She had been cut on the buttocks through her jean shorts with a box cutter or razor.
According to Caldwell, investigators have recently recognized a pattern of about four or five incidents similar to Monday’s that occurred in retail stores in the county in the last six months.
No description of the assailant was available in Monday’s incident, Caldwell said. But in previous incidents, the assailant was described as a Hispanic man about five feet six, in his late 20s to early 30s. Victims have all been in their late teens to early 20s, Caldwell added.
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