UPDATED: 'Serial Cutter' Slashes Woman's Butt at Fair Oaks Mall

UPDATED (6 p.m.): Fairfax County Police released the dates and locations of other serial cutter incidents. They include:

• February 14 near Champps in Fair Oaks Mall
• May 15 at Ann Taylor in Fair Oaks Mall
• June 18 at H&M in Tysons Corner Mall
• June 20 at Marshalls in Greenbriar Shopping Center

Cops say they're looking for a possible serial slasher who follows young women into stores, distracts them, cuts them, then slips away.

On Monday, around 5:30 p.m., an 18-year-old woman was shopping at a Forever XXI store in Fair Oaks Mall when she noticed clothes that had fallen off of a rack behind her. She saw a man bending down to pick them up, felt a sharp pain and thought that one of the hangars had struck her.

She realized shortly afterwards that her denim shorts had been slashed. Her buttocks were bleeding after being cut one and a half inches. Store employees contacted security, who called the police. 

Fairfax County Police believe that this isn't an isolated incident, and may be linked to a string of other four incidents in county retail stores since February. One of the most recent occurred in a Marshall’s at Greenbriar Shopping Center around 2:45 p.m. on June 20, police said. 

The man was described as Hispanic, late 20’s, around 5 feet 6 inches tall and heavy-set. He wore white shorts and a short-sleeved shirt in the July 25 assault.

So far, his victims are all teenagers or women in their early 20s.

Police ask anyone with information to contact Crime Solvers by phone at 1-866-411-TIPS/8477, e-mail at www.fairfaxcrimesolvers.org or text “TIP187” plus your message to CRIMES/274637 or call Fairfax County Police at 703-691-2131.