A man is accused of trying to kidnap a five-year-old girl and attempting to buy her from her mother Thursday in Chicago.
The mother and child were walking down West Fullerton Avenue when the unidentified man began following them and started talking to the mother, Fox NewsMoments later, the man allegedly offered her cash for the child but she refused him. However, the suspect “attempted to grab/pull the juvenile by the hair towards him,” law enforcement said.the suspect, wearing red shorts and a black T-shirt, walk up close behind the pair before they stopped and he kept going.
The pair escaped from the suspect, whom police described as a Hispanic man with red hair, a thin beard, and in his 20s. “I was having a conversation with the commander, that he put high alert on Fullerton Avenue during the mornings and afternoons. Especially when kids are going to school and leaving school,” 31st Ward Alderman Felix Cardona Jr. said.
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