Neighbour scared man from luring Winnipeg kids into truck
Winnipeg police are on the lookout after a Kingston Row area resident deterred a suspicious man from luring two kids into his truck Thursday.
Police said the man called two girls over to his pick up truck, showed them a cat and asked them to come with him to find the cat's home Thursday night.
The girls, sisters age 7 and 10 years old, were playing in Kingston Park in the 300 block of Kingston Crescent when the man drove up around 7:15 p.m.
Not long after the man began speaking witht he kids, Dan Donahue, who lives on Kingston Crescent, intervened.
Donahue thought something was amiss about the situation, so he approaced the man and started asking him what he was doing. That's when the man became nervous.
"His demeanour shifted somewhat after I arrived," said Donahue. "I could tell that as I began asking question he felt it was probably time to leave the scene."
The man fled the scene and Donahue came away from the encounter feeling rattled.
"Very surprising. I had just mentioned to neighbours that, I mean, this is a fairly quiet area, it can happen anywhere," said Donahue. "But you think with all this attention being paid to this type of thing, you think people would think twice about attempting it."
Donahue and some of his neighbours then filed a police report.
The man is described as 40 years old with a medium build and brown hair. Police report he was clean shaven and wearing a dark jacket.
The man is said to have been driving a red compact two-door pickup truck with a Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service licence plate.
Anyone with information about his identity is asked to call investigators at 204-986-2857 or Crime Stoppers at 204-786-8477.
