A homeless convicted sex-offender screamed , ' I 'm going to rape you ! ' before attacking a woman in a Manhattan bar , according to a criminal complaint . A 23-year old woman was allegedly raped in the bathroom stall of a bar in Manhattan 's posh Gramercy Park neighborhood on Saturday . Rodney Stover , 48 , was arrested on Wednesday in connection to the rape . NYPD released surveillance footage of the suspect on Tuesday and a bartender recognized the man as Stover . Stover had allegedly hid inside one of the bathroom stalls at Turnmill Bar at around 7.50pm on Saturday then ambushed the young woman . The victim said she tried to fight back but Stover punched her repeatedly until he left with his pants down.
A homeless convicted sex-offender screamed , ' I 'm going to rape you ! ' before attacking a woman in a Manhattan bar , according to a criminal complaint . A 23-year old woman was allegedly raped in the bathroom stall of a bar in Manhattan 's posh Gramercy Park neighborhood on Saturday . Rodney Stover , 48 , was arrested on Wednesday in connection to the rape . NYPD released surveillance footage of the suspect on Tuesday and a bartender recognized the man as Stover . Stover had allegedly hid inside one of the bathroom stalls at Turnmill Bar at around 7.50pm on Saturday then ambushed the young woman . He was arrested in 1992 for raping and sodomizing a woman he did not know and was released from prison on Valentine 's Day of this year .