A girl in Boulder escaped a potential kidnapping Monday morning when an unknown man started following her on her bicycle and grabbed her shoulder, according to a message on X.com from the Boulder Police Department.
The 11-year-old said she was walking to school on 26th Street between Meadow and Norwood avenues around 8:30 a.m. on Monday when a man started to follow her and grabbed her. The girl then grabbed a tree branch that was on the ground and hit the would-be kidnapper, which caused him to let go and allowed her to run to school.
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The child later told her mother about what happened, and she called the police on Wednesday.
The suspect is described as a man wearing all black with a mask and circular sunglasses with colored lenses. He may have been speaking Spanish.
This is the second attempted kidnapping on the Front Range in the past week. A man tried to kidnap a girl at gunpoint outside of Mountain Range High School on Oct. 25.
No arrests have been made in either case.
Anyone with information about the Boulder case can contact Detective Taylor Hickam at HickamT@bouldercolorado.gov or 303-441-1936 regarding case 24-11453.
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