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Brooklyn Park police search for suspect they say sexually assaulted 6-year-old at park

Anyone with information should call Brooklyn Park police at 763-498-8222

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Police in Brooklyn Park are asking for help in locating a man they say sexually assaulted a 6-year-old in a portable bathroom at a park.

According to police, the alleged assault happened just after 7 p.m. Wednesday at Willowstone Park on 95th Avenue North at a family party. Family members could not locate the 6-year-old, then spotted the child exiting the portable toilet followed by the suspect, described as a Black man in his early 20s with short hair on the sides with more volume on top, a thin moustache and wearing a black t-shirt.


“When the family member saw the male come out behind the child they immediately went and confronted the male believing something was wrong,” Deputy Chief Mark Bruley said Thursday. “The male suspect was able to diminish those concerns and they let the suspect go. Obviously when they learned there had been a sexual assault, the suspect was already gone.”

Investigators believe the man either lives in the neighborhood or has a contact close by.

“That’s one of the first things we do is pull sex offender data and start looking through it and following up on it,” Bruley said, adding they’ve questioned “numerous” people of interest before ruling them out. “We kind of have circles of interest and we expand that and go wider and wider. There’s different levels of sex offenders, some who have moved, so it’s a little complex.”

Anyone with information should call Brooklyn Park police at 763-498-8222.

Anyone with information should call Brooklyn Park police at 763-498-8222