Police seek Kashaan Parks, 39, suspected of using belt to choke, rape woman in Bronx

MELROSE, The Bronx (PIX11) -- Police are searching for a man who allegedly used his belt like a lasso and choked a woman until she was unconscious and then raped her on a street in the Bronx last week.

Late Friday afternoon, detectives identified the man as Kashaan Parks, 39. He has five prior arrests, according to the NYPD, and now they seek him in relation to the crime that cops describe as heinous. 

It's described similarly by residents in the area where it happened, near East 152nd Street and Third Avenue.