DENVER – Denver Police are looking for a man they say tried to grab a 14-year-old girl in the middle of the afternoon on Thursday saying, "Let's go to my house."
Police say the girl was walking along the 3000 block of North Fillmore Street, just south of Martin Luther King Boulevard, when a man approached her and tried to engage in conversation with her at 3:50 p.m.
The girl told police when she wouldn't talk to him, the man got upset and grabbed her left arm. He then said, "Let's go to my house."
Instead, the girl pulled out her pepper spray and sprayed the man in his face. She was able to run to safety.
Police say the public should be able to tell who this man is because the pepper spray had orange skin dye. The girl described the attacker as a black man between 5 feet 8 inches and 6-feet tall. She says he was skinny, about 20 years old and has a "chin-strap-type beard". He was wearing a black, hooded sweatshirt and dark jeans at the time.
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