New Yorkers beat and tied up an Ecuadorean migrant accused of raping a 13-year-old girl in broad daylight at Kissena Park.
Footage of the brutal capture is now going viral online.
The mob spotted Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi, 25, early on Tuesday after police released surveillance images and asked for the public's help to identify him.
Inga-Landi was tied up and beaten with a belt as they waited for police to arrive and arrest him.
“Where are you going? Where are you going?” a woman holding his hair screams in Spanish in the video. “He’s a rapist. He don’t care.”
As police arrive, the woman yells, “He’s under the car. He’s hiding under the car because we beat the sh-t out of him.”
“Beat his ass,” she adds. Vigilantes helped nab the 25-year-old Ecuadorean "migrant" wanted for Thursday's rape of a 13-year-old girl at a Queens park — smacking him around and tying him up with a belt.
Dramatic video and photos show the fugitive cowering on the sidewalk as the angry mob pounds him and… pic.twitter.com/iJgqiW8Umj
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The New York Post reports, "One of the civilian heroes said he waited for Inga-Landi to come out of a deli on 108th Street — a few blocks from the park — after recognizing him from police wanted posters and surveillance video released by the NYPD."
“I seen him a few times — he comes to this store to buy stuff,” Jeffrey Flores told The Post.
The victim was with a 13-year-old male friend when they were reportedly approached with a “machete-style” knife and forced into a wooded area by the perpetrator.
NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said the perpetrator tied both of the victim's hands with shoelaces before raping the young girl, according to a report from the New York Post.
When he was finished, the man stole the kids' phones and told them to wait 20 minutes before leaving the area. The kids waited and ran to their school to report the incident.
Police said they found one of the shoelaces and a water bottle believed to have been left behind by the predator.
The Post reports, "Inga-Landi faces a slew of charges, including rape, kidnapping and sex abuse, after cops arrested him thanks to a flood of help from the public, including the good Samaritans who lassoed him on the street, NYPD brass said later Tuesday."
A $10,000 reward had been offered for information leading to his arrest.
