Someone attacked two women on the Berlin Hike and Bike trail in Portage County off of Rte 224.
The attacks happened 2 months apart to the day.
Police believe it was the same guy.
Same place. Same MO. Same suspect description.
"I have young girls. Teenage girls and it scares me," Angela McInnes of Rootstown told Channel 3 News outside the Deerfield Family Dollar on Tuesday.
The most recent attack occurred just the day before, Monday evening around 7 p.m. It was still daylight.
"The victim reported that she was riding her bike along the bike trail and was attacked by a male subject who drug her off the bicycle," said Major Larry Lambert of the Portage County Sheriff's Department.
The suspect they are looking for is in his 20's to 30's, 6 feet tall, 175 to 200 lbs with short curly brown hair. He was wearing dark clothing a hat and a mask.
The woman who was attacked on the same trail on June 14th gave nearly the same description.
Investigators spent the day ,Tuesday, scouring the trail even calling in a drone for an eye in the sky over the surrounding woods.
Meanwhile, people sick of being scared are forming a united front.
"Whoever is doing this, you're a coward and I have my CCW and I'm not afraid of you," Michael Burrier of Alliance said matter of factly.
He had positioned himself at the head of the trail as part of a self mandated human safety net of sorts.
"I have friends on the other end of the trail and I came to this end and I'm gonna start coming out every night 6pm to dark," said Burrier.
In the latest attack, the suspect took the woman's clothes, purse, cellphone and bicycle. Leaving her to walk about a mile to flag down a truck driver and ask a woman in her home for help.
One woman who didn't want to be identified, showed up at the trail Tuesday evening. She told WKYC that whoever is preying on women has also stolen the peace of mind of everyone who lives around the trail.
That's why she hung up a homemade sign warning people who may not be on social media.
"There are campers from out of town and boaters who don't know what's going on if they're coming in from out of town," she said.
"This is an individual we have to get off the streets. If he's bold enough to do it twice, we want to make sure we prevent a third time," said Lambert.
As of late Tuesday evening, the Portage County Sheriff's Deputy did have leads they were following.