SPOKANE — A man reportedly snatched a 10-year-old girl off a Spokane street Saturday afternoon, but she escaped from his car and ran away.
Police said the man was driving a late 1980s or early 1990s dark green GMC Jimmy. He reportedly pulled up next to two 10-year-old girls as they walked north on Crestline Street around 2:30 p.m., Spokane police spokeswoman Monique Cotton said. He tried to entice them into his SUV, but the girls ran east and climbed a tree to get away.
The man chased the girls, grabbed one of them, carried her about 200 feet to his vehicle and put her inside, Cotton said. The other girl followed them and yelled for help.
When the man moved around the SUV to get into the driver’s seat, the abducted girl was able to open the passenger door and escape, Cotton said.