(WWJ) Detroit Police are looking for a man wanted for an attempted child abduction on the city's east side.
According to investigators, the suspect — seen in a composite sketch released by the DPD Monday afternoon — assaulted a little girl was she was walking home from Carstens Elementary/Middle School, on Tuesday, Sept. 21.
The child was walking northbound on Dickerson Ave. from East Jefferson Ave., at around 3:45 p.m., when the suspect approached her from behind.
The suspect grabbed the girl's hair, police said, and pulled her by hair onto a porch in the 1100 block of Dickerson where he tried kissing her on the mouth before attempting to remove her shirt.
When the child's tablet began ringing, that's when police said the man pushed the victim onto the porch and fled in an unknown direction.
The suspect is described as a Black male in his 30s, around 5'8'' tall and 150 lbs., with a slim build and a medium brown complexion, ungroomed black hair and brown eyes that were "bloodshot red." He was wearing a dingy white t-shirt with dirty blue jeans, and had a foul body odor and chapped lips.
Anyone who can identify this wanted suspect, or who has any information about this crime is asked to call the DPD's Sex Crimes Unit, Det. B. Herndon at 313-596-1287. To remain 100% anonymous, tipsters can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800 SPEAK UP.
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