. >> reporter: el murray one of the people exercising to night in this wilmington park where a 22-year-old woman was grabbed tuesday by a man who tried to rober. >> i'm going to go on a run down by the river. be careful. so i'll be fine. >> reporter: police say the woman was on the walking path in the park at south park drive and northwest street in wilmington. a man grabbed her. they struggled. she fell. the man tried to take her things and it all happened before 3:00 p.m. tuesday in broad daylight. >> there's not a lot of people around here around that time. so i could see something like that happening. because there's not a lot of traffic. right now there's a lot of people walking around if you come at noon, you might be the only person on the trail. >> reporter: someone came to help the woman but the bad guy got away. people who work out here daily are shocked. >> usually this a pretty safe area. i don't really hear, i mean like if it was mugging we don't usually hear about that kind of stuff. >> reporter: same park police say a man tried to rape a 28-year-old woman who went for a run back in february. she fought off the attacker who ro