09
April
11-YEAR-OLD-FIGHTS OFF STRANGER, COPS SAY
News 12 Long Island
Police are searching for a man accused of grabbing a young girl who was on her way to school inWestbury on Wednesday.
According to police, the fifth-grader was approached at the corner of Grand Street and WinthropAvenue around 9:15 a.m.
Police say the 10-year-old girl was walking to the Drexel Avenue Elementary School when she wasapproached from behind by an unknown white male in his 30s who grabbed her arm.
The girl was able to break free from the man, ran and hid from him until the suspect fled thescene.