MOUNT JOY, Pa. (WHTM) -
After hearing about an attempted abduction outside a busy shopping center on East Main Street in Mount Joy, Lancaster County parents are a little uneasy.
"You just don't expect it to happen right down the street from you," Robert Strocko said.
It was even more upsetting for parents to learn that police believe the suspect may have thought the 21-year-old victim was a much younger.
"She is very short in stature, very small in stature, blonde hair pulled back with a ponytail, carrying a book bag," Mount Joy Police Detective Joseph Goody said.
Goody said the woman was walking to work at a Giant food store Wednesday morning and noticed an SUV following her for several blocks. She told authorities the man driving the SUV tried to grab her and pull her into the vehicle.
"He pulled in behind her and got his vehicle so close without getting out that he was actually able to put his hands on her book bag that she was wearing and pull her toward the vehicle," Goody said. "She pulled away and that's when she realized the severity and this wasn't going to stop ... he was actually making an attempt."
Investigators have released security camera photographs of a vehicle, a Chevrolet Traverse, that is possibly connected to the incident.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 653-1650.
