Boy reports abduction attempt to police

An 8-year-old Howard County boy told police a strange woman tried to pull him inside her car as he was walking home from an Ellicott City school Tuesday afternoon.

“This sort of thing where a person gets out [of] the vehicle ? particularly a woman ? and [tries to take a child] is very unusual,” said Police Spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn, who added the department doesn?t keep statistics on abduction reports because they are so rare.