CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Police Department has issued a community alert after an 11-year-old girl who escaped a kidnapping attempt reported seeing another girl inside a van driven by the assailant.
The girl told police a man wearing a black ski mask grabbed her and tried to force her into the back of a white van that had its windows painted over. The attempted abduction took place Monday around 4 p.m. in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the city’s South Side.
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