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CHARLOTTE, NC — New information has been released in the three cases of men suspected of trying to lure children into cars in the Charlotte area.
Police tell WCCB these three cases do not appear to be related. Witnesses weren’t sure last night because descriptions of the cars in two of the incidents were so similar. However, police say the men are all described differently.
Perhaps it was mother’s intuition, but Michelle Sports feels she may have stopped a potential kidnapping at Westside Apartments.
“I just felt like something wasn’t right,” said Sports.
Sports was actually walking out of the apartment office door when she saw a man in a car beside the little boy on his bike. She told the boy to come to her, and the driver sped off.
The victim was her neighbor’s eight-year-old son.
“That was my main thing: get him away from the street and whoever that was,” said Sports. “I figured if he knew him, he would have come on down with him and talked with him and met me or whatever.”
She noted the silver car, the South Carolina license plate.
Apartment managers called WCCB after seeing our report about the driver of a similar car approaching a boy in the University area last week.
“He got out of his car and ran after me,” said Damon McArthur. “So, I ran down the hill.”
In that case, the seven-year-old says the man chased him home from the school bus stop.
Just one day earlier, WCCB warned parents about a white car caught on camera in Mooresville. Two boys say the driver tried to coax them closer with candy.
“Was he going to flash them?” said the victim’s father, Darren Mulholland. “You don’t know in a situation like that. Was he going to grab one of them?”
Detectives want to talk with the drivers of these cars to find out what their intentions with the children were. If you know them, call police.
