DNA tests have revealed the identity of the would-be Central Park rapist whose intended victim fought off the attack with the help of her dog, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
Cops found some of the attacker’s blood on the woman after the May 12 attack, and a crime-lab test resulted in a match.
The suspect was not in custody as of last night, the sources said.
The fiend targeted a 25-year-old ex-model who was walking her dog on the Woodlands Path near 102nd Street at 8:30 a.m.
“He just kept saying, ‘I’m gonna kill you,’ ” the woman told The Post.
She fought back furiously – kicking the knife-wielding attacker.
“I was not getting raped – no matter what,” she said.
Her 60-pound pooch, Cookie, jumped into the battle.
He bit the 200-pound sex fiend three times.
The normally timid dog “turned into a Braveheart and did something he would have never done before,” the woman said.
The assault took place about 200 yards from the site of the notorious attack on a Central Park jogger in 1989.