Attempted 2014 kidnapping in Phoenix remains unsolved
Mar 9, 2020, 12:00 PM
(Twitter Photo/City of Phoenix)
(Twitter Photo/City of Phoenix)
PHOENIX — “Stranger Danger” is a very real threat to both children and adults.
Our case takes us to a neighborhood near 28th Avenue and McDowell Road on Feb. 15, 2014.
An 11-year-old girl and her friends are outside. A guy in a dark green minivan drives by and makes threatening comments to the girls.
“Sunday, Monday and Tuesday the suspect was still seen in the neighborhood,” Phoenix Police Sgt. Derek Elmore said.
“He was hanging around the victim’s house and driving by slowly.”
The 11-year-old had enough and decided to confront the stranger and ask him what he was doing.
(Police artist’s sketch)
“The suspect then grabbed the victim and attempted to pull her into the van,” Elmore said.
“She was able to escape his grasp and fled and the vehicle left the area.”
That dark green minivan will be easy to spot. It had dark windows, a skeleton face sticker on the rear window and had the numbers 1 through 10 on one side of the van and 1 through 20 on the other.
Read more about this case.
This article originally appeared July 7, 2014.
