Williamson County Sheriff Posts Video Of Alleged Kidnapping Try

ROUND ROCK, TX — Williamson County Sheriff Robert Chody on Thursday posted a video on his official Twitter account purporting to show a girl running away from an attempted kidnapping he reported as having happened earlier in the week.

Chody said the surveillance camera footage shows the 8-year-old girl running near O'Connor Drive and Pocono Drive at around 7 p.m. on Tuesday. Chody earlier issued an alert about the incident, describing the alleged suspect as a man with muscular build and a lightning bolt shape shaved onto the side of his scalp. The video doesn't show the suspect, but shows a young girl running across the screen in the background.

The child managed to "resist and pull away" from the man's grasp after he grabbed the girl's arm, Chody previously explained. The incident is said to have happened near the Avery Ranch subdivision, Chody said, near a series of mailboxes in a neighborhood between Cedar Park and Round Rock.

In addition to the lightning bolt design on the man's head, the suspect is said be between five feet, ten inches tall to six feet tall. He was said to have been wearing a red T-shirt, blue jeans and black shoes and sported a black stud earring and tattoo of unspecified design on his right bicep, the sheriff said in his previous advisory.

After the unsuccessful kidnapping attempt, Chody said the man drove off in what may have been a black Honda CRV with a dent of between three to five inches on the front passenger side of the vehicle. A black-and-orange basketball decal was affixed to the lower corner of the back window, and there was some kind of fuzzy, round decoration hanging from the rear view mirror, according to Chody.

On a Facebook neighborhood page called "People of NW Austin and Cedar Park," a woman named Jamie Olson-Lott posted a news story about the near-abduction, claiming the child in the video is her daughter. She asked fellow residents in the area to watch any home surveillance camera footage they might have to see if any further footage exists.

"Ok guys," the woman begins her post. "Do we have ANYONE who lives in the Villages of Brushy Creek? My child is the one who almost got abducted!!! We are asking anyone who has cameras at all (they don’t have to be faced towards mailbox) to call the police and let them sift through it. The man was driving around the neighborhood PRIOR to try and pick up my child. Please and thank you. We need to catch him."

Anyone with information should call 911 or the Williamson County sheriff’s office at (512) 943-1300.

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