Pervert goes into girls bathroom, dad hits him with car

[Tux of Borg]

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Man flees after mall bathroom incident

BY AMALIE NASH

 

A man accused of trying to enter bathroom stalls occupied by two girls Tuesday evening at Briarwood Mall was later struck by a car driven by the girls' father before the suspect escaped by scaling a fence and running across a freeway, police said.

 

The bizarre incident unfolded at the mall when the girls, sisters ages 8 and 11 of Ypsilanti Township, were using the restroom, police said. They said a man entered the restroom and peered at them through the stall doors, then attempted to get inside the stalls with them, police said. The girls kicked the doors and pressed their bodies against the stalls to keep him out. "It was very scary for those girls,'' Detective Sgt. Jeff Connelly said.

 

The girls alerted their father and pointed out the man as he crouched in a nearby hallway. When the father tried to confront him, the stranger ran and led the father and other mall patrons on a chase that ended when he disappeared outside, police said.

 

Later in the evening, the father and girls were leaving the mall when the girls saw the same man in the parking lot - apparently returning to get his vehicle, police said. The father drove toward the man and tried to block him in, striking him twice and sending him onto the hood of the car, reports said.

 

With the father, security guards and witnesses chasing him, the man scaled a fence and ran across I-94.

 

Police said they have a potential suspect based on the vehicles left in the mall parking lot overnight. They have not yet been able to contact the registered owner of one vehicle, a 41-year-old Dearborn Heights man who matches the description of the man in the bathroom, police said.

 

Amalie Nash can be reached at anash@ annarbornews.com or 734-994-6832.

[Beerball]

Good job dad. Shoulda used more gas though.