July
29,2000
AP
News
Chicago -- Police have issued an arrest warrant for a man
suspected in a series of attacks against Asian women.
The suspect, Mark Anthony Lewis, 33 of Chicago, is believed to have fled to the Philippines, Chicago police said Friday.
The FBI has also obtained a federal fugitive warrant.
Lewis was identified by victims through photographs, police said. Clothing and other items described by the victims was found at Lewis' last known address in Chicago, police said.
The string of nine physical and sexual assaults since April 7 have spread fear through Chicago's Asian communities. Seven of the assaults were on Asian women. One victim was an Asian girl and one was a Hispanic woman who police said may have looked Asian to her attacker.
The attacker has posed as a census taker, a police officer, an FBI agent and an immigration officer to get into the women's homes. The most recent attack was July 19.
A Philippine immigration disembarkation card shows that a man named Mark Anthony Lewis arrived in Manila on July 21 from Japan. He entered on a tourist visa, giving his U.S. residence as Chicago.
