| Updated: 2/10 6:27 pm |
Published: 2/10 8:59 am
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Broken Arrow police located and identified the suspect in an attempted abduction of a 13-year old girl on Friday morning.
A Broken Arrow police spokesperson says a 14-year old suspect confessed to trying to abduct a 13-year old girl around 7:15 Friday morning. The girl was waiting at a bus stop in the 200 block of West Timberlane. The victim told police the man put his hand over her face and drug her through a yard next to the bus stop. She was not injured in the attack.
Police say the victim said the attacker told her if she screamed he would kill her. But she screamed anyway, which caught the attention of a neighbor.
"I saw someone slip up behind her and grab her, and drag her across the cul-de-sac toward my house," Judy Blaylock said. "And I ran out the garage door and came around, and started screaming, screaming, screaming at him as loud as I could."
That's when the attacker let the victim go. The suspect ran away, and the girl ran home to her dad.
"I was getting dressed for work, and she comes running into the house and she was hysterical," the girl's father, James, said. "And she just jumped into my arms."
"I still don't know what to think. I mean, I've gone through a bunch of emotions. I was scared, and then I was angry, and then, you know, sad."
James said he was already an over-protective father. Now, he says it doesn't matter how old your kids are, or how much you've taught them about avoiding dangerous situations bad things can still happen to kids.
"It can happen anywhere, I guess, is all I can tell you. Watch your kids."
James also now realizes the importance of watching over other people's kids like Blaylock did for his daughter.
"She saved my kid's life today, I think," James said. "I plan on doing something real nice for her, because I can never repay her."
"I wasn't going to let him get her," Blaylock said. "I was not going to let him get her. That could have been my granddaughter standing out there on that curb, and I was not going to let him get her."
Police used information from witnesses and the suspect's clothing to identify him.
Broken Arrow police placed Springcreek Elementary School and Childers Middle School on lockdown for several hours after the incident as a precaution.
