SEATTLE -- Police say they're close to arresting the man accused of sexually assaulting more than two dozen women in the city's Beacon Hill neighborhood.

The break came after neighbors confronted the groper as he attacked his latest victim -- an Asian woman who was walking with a young child down Renton Avenue South on Saturday morning.

"I heard the lady scream and then I turned around and saw the hand coming around her back side," said Earl Johnson, one of the fist to confront the man on Saturday morning.

Johnson said he made sure to document every detail of the incident, including the attacker's face.

"About 5'10", black, had a few pock marks on his left cheek," he said.

Johnson even took a picture of the attacker's license plate with his cell phone.

"He came up behind, me reached in my pocket, snatched my phone out of my pocket and said 'what do you have on this?' And (he) took it and ran off," said Johnson.

The groper got away again, but Seattle police said the information Johnson and his neighbors collected could lead to an arrest soon.

Police said they have not yet spoken to the victim in this case, and are urging her to contact detectives' sexual assault unit at 206-684-5575.

The elusive man has attacked more than two dozen times since 2006, targeting Asian women in South Seattle as they walk to and from bus stops.

"He touched me. Now he touched one more person," said victim Hoa Nguyen Thi.

Thi was grabbed from behind two months ago. She said news of another attack brings back terrifying memories.

"I'm so scared now, very scared," she said.

The suspect is described as a 5'10'' black man approximately 40 years old with flesh-colored shaving bumps on left side of face. He is believed to be driving a 1994 green Jeep Cherokee.

Police are urging women in the area to walk in pairs. They said women who are attacked should scream because the man seems to be easily spooked. No one has been raped or seriously hurt.

But until the man is caught, police are asking people take extra steps and maintain extra vigilance, fearful that the next attack could be far more violent.

Anyone with information on the case is urged to call police.