THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, May 5, 1995 TAG: 9505050772
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: STAFF REPORT
DATELINE: NEWPORT NEWS LENGTH: Short : 46 lines
A 15-year-old girl standing at a bus stop was abducted Thursday morning by a knife-wielding man. The girl was released soon after she was abducted and was not injured, police said.
Authorities do not believe the attack is part of the East End assaults that have plagued the minority community in Newport News since 1990.
Patricia L. Mahaffy, spokesperson for the Newport News Police Department, said the girl was standing at a Pentram bus stop at 44th and Jefferson Avenue about 7:22 a.m. when a black man in an older-model, brown station wagon stopped and got out of his car carrying a knife. He forced the girl into his car.
The man made sexual comments to the girl while driving along Jefferson, Mahaffy said. He released the girl near the intersection of Jefferson Avenue and Groome Road.
Mahaffy said the black male was described as about 6 feet, 2 inches tall and between 150 pounds and 160 pounds. He had black hair and a beard.
Mahaffy said police investigators do not believe the abduction is connected to almost 20 attacks on young girls mostly in the city's East End that have occurred off and on since 1990. The girls were approached from behind by a black male while they were going to or returning from school.
``Investigators do not feel this incident was connected to past abductions in the southeast community,'' Mahaffy said. ``The reason being the attack location was not within the boundary of the other attacks; the suspect was in a car; the suspect was armed; the physical description does not match.'' ILLUSTRATION: Graphic
DESCRIPTION
The suspect was driving an older-model, brown station wagon,
police said.
He was described as a black male, as about 6 feet, 2 inches tall
and between 150 pounds and 160 pounds.
He had black hair and a beard.
KEYWORDS: KIDNAPPING by CNB