Dallas police say the reported attempted abductions of a 12-year-old girl this week did not occur.
Police said the girl told them a man tried to grab her at an apartment complex at Denton Drive and Community Drive near Bachman Lake on Tuesday and then again Wednesday.
Investigators said they learned through follow-up interviews that there was no kidnapping attempts, and they referred the girl to agencies that can help provide her further assistance.
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Dallas police are looking for a man who they say tried twice to abduct a 12-year-old girl, and now one neighborhood is on high alert.
Police said the man tried to grab the same girl at an apartment complex at Denton Drive and Community Drive near Bachman Lake on Tuesday and then again Wednesday.
“First of all it’s horrible,” said Aundrey Evans. “Why would a grown person try and mess with a child?”
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Police said the man on Tuesday tried to lure the girl in his car by offering candy. The next day, he attempted again in the same area around the same time at 7:45 a.m. This time he was able to grab the girl and bring her to the back of a nearby apartment complex, but the girl was able to escape and ran away, police said.
The suspect is believed to be 30 to 40 years old and is described as approximately five-feet, eight-inches tall with a medium build. He has a star tattoo on the right side of his neck, police said.
“It makes me want to keep my child under me even more,” said Evans.
“Whoever it is I wish they would get caught because it’s sick,” said Hiawatha Shepherd, who lives in the neighborhood.
In the Tuesday incident, the man was driving a dark-color four-door sedan with a missing hubcap on the front passenger-side wheel and a red or orange apartment parking decal above the vehicle registration sticker.
In the Wednesday incident, he was in a tan mid-size pickup truck that was lowered and had scrap metal in the bed.
