THE Edmonton police service is looking for a man suspected of trying to remove a teenager in the northwest of Edmonton last week, who could also be the suspect in a case of public indecency two days earlier.
Friday, May 9, around 9 am, police said that a 15 -year -old girl was walking nearly 145 avenue and 125 Street in the Baranow district, when a man who would have urinated outside and started walking towards her.
The man, who said the police seemed to be poisoned, caught the teenager’s arm and tried to drag the daughter on the other side of the street.
The girl was able to escape man’s reach and run away. She was on her way to school at Edmonton Islamic Academy neighboring, where the director said that the teenager was shaking his office to report the meeting.
“She was in distress and she informed me that she had faced a very unusual situation where a strange man had approached her, had grasped her by the wrist and tried to attract her in his vehicle,” said EIA director Abraham Abougouche.
“She was a year of 10th year secondary. She was able to fight him and escape her reach and escape safely. ”
While Abouthe put the school on alert and called the police, the suspect – described as a man in the middle of the 1950s with white and white hair – would have been in a gray vehicle and would have left.
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While investigating the attempted kidnapping, the police learned another incident on May 7 involving a man and a vehicle with a similar description.
Last Wednesday May 7, in the same general area as the attempt to kidnap, the police said that a resident of the region had spotted a naked man in a park that masturbates.
After this incident, the man would have dressed, then walked north on 125 Street and entered a gray tailgate, which would be a Honda Gray Fit from 2011 to 2018.
This incident did not occur on the property of the EIA, but the school was informed anyway.
“Our charming neighbors have actually drawn a certain attention to this the day before, on a strange man who hides in the region,” said Abougouche.
“It happened while a student returned home to a neighboring neighborhood. Our neighbors said they saw this person before and now the police were on the lookout. ”
Police released surveillance images of the May 7 of the suspect and the vehicle incident. At that time, the police said that the police had not confirmed that the two incidents were linked but noted the similarities.
Families of students who attend the Edmonton Islamic Academy were informed after the attempted kidnapping.
“It is a very unusual incident. We generally live in a very safe neighborhood, so it is not something that is common for us and everyone is on pins and needles,” said Abougouche, adding that staff, students and parents have expressed their anxiety.
“There have been a lot of discussions, a lot of debriefing with our parents, our students and our staff on what has happened, and now we are talking about being aware and preventing them from performing in the future.”
He noted that the school had received a lot of support from the Edmonton police and the scary incident caused an examination of the school’s emergency procedures.
“It was a good test for our protocols and our insurance that we have systems in place if emergencies and events like this reproduce,” said Abougouche.
Abougouche said that the teenager had managed the frightening experience.
“Very proud of her, has shown a lot of bravery and courage, and her family are doing well and gets all the support they need.”
Abougouche said the Edmonton Islamic Academy had a school resource agent, but they were moved because of higher needs elsewhere in the city. The principal hopes to have an officer on site again in the future.
“We are a school community that feels comfortable with the SRO on site. The SRO brings a lot of value to our program, a lot of sense of security and in a situation as we have faced, I mean, of course, it would have been ideal to have a police officer on the spot,” said Abougouche.
“We hope to continue working with EPS and have a SRO return.”
Anyone with information on the suspect or suspect or one or the other incident is requested to contact EPS at 780-423-4567 or # 377 from a mobile phone. Anonymous information can also be subject to Stoppers crime at 1-800-222-8477 or online.
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