A Vicksburg teenager has told police that a man entered her home and attacked her with a knife in the same neighborhood where an elderly woman was raped and beaten last summer.

Sgt. Tom Wilson of the Vicksburg Police Department said police were called at 8:30 p.m. Monday to investigate an attack on the 15-year-old girl in the neighborhood off Halls Ferry Road just north of Wa-terways Experiment Station.

The girl told police she was alone in the kitchen of the home when a man came up behind her with a knife.

&#8220She was able to break free and lock herself in the bathroom,” Wilson said.

Shortly after that, the man left the house and the girl called police.

The victim suffered at least one cut, Wilson said, and the injury was treated at the scene. She was not taken to the hospital that night.

Wilson said the girl described her attacker as a black man possibly between 15 and 20 years old. Her attacker was behind her and she did not see his face or clothes, Wilson said.

He said there was no evidence of forced entry, and police believe the man entered through an unlocked front door.

Wilson said Monday’s attack has no obvious connection to the unsolved beating and rape of a 91-year-old woman on July 25 in the same area.

In that case, the victim answered a knock on her door. The man forced his way in and attacked the woman.

The victim was hospitalized for treatment of her injuries and eventually released. She later died of unrelated causes.

After the attack, Crime Stoppers and others raised a reward of $1,100 for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of the attacker.

After the attack of the 91-year-old woman, police released a sketch of her possible attacker, whom she told police was a young black man wearing a white T-shirt and jeans.