DETROIT (WXYZ) — Detroit police say a suspect is in custody in connection with the rape of a woman at Van Antwerp Park in the northwest part of the city.

Rebecca McKay, Commander of the Major Crimes unit at DPD, says the incident happened just before 10 pm on September 1.

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The woman told police an armed man approached her in the area of St. Martins and Pinehurst.

He took her to a Port-A-Pot in the nearby park and told her to get inside. When she refused, he fired a shot into the ground. It was at this point that she went into the Port-A-Pot and, police say, the man assaulted her.

McKay says the woman went to the hospital and r

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