'Friends' star David Schwimmer helps cops with assault investigation
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Friends co-star David Schwimmer was instrumental in helping New York police solve a criminal assault and robbery case when he was able to show investigators security camera footage that showed a violent fight between three people.
The incident in question took place early Monday morning, at approximately 5:30am, in an apartment building adjacent to the actor's luxury town house.
The fight allegedly involved a transgender prostitute, a john, and a robber. As the prostitute and the john were having sex in the john's apartment when a third man broke into the apartment and tried to steal the john's laptop.
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It is believed that, when the john made an attempt to stop the robber from taking his laptop, the prostitute attacked the john, before the robber allegedly assaulted the john with a knife. The fight began in the first-floor apartment before spilling out into the hallway and eventually onto the street.
The prostitute fled the scene, the victim was taken to a hospital, and the man believed to have been the robber and the stabber was taken into custody. 21-year-old Robert Rainey was arrested and charged with robbery, criminal possession of a weapon and assault.
Before Schwimmer provided police with the video from his security camera, the only information investigators had to go on were a few eye-witness statements as well as conflicting accounts from the victim and the alleged perpetrator.