This afternoon around 3pm (Saturday 25 July) my teenaged son was walking around the neighborhood with a female teenaged friend. They were sitting at the corner of Highland and Bryant in front of the apartment building, waiting for her parent to pick her up when a guy in a car drove by them a few times (looping the block...first coming down Highland from the park and turning right on Bryant, then immediately turning back towards Highland on Bryant and making a right onto Highland, then looping around and coming back up Bryant again). The last pass he rolled down his window and asked my son's friend how old she was. She told him she wasn't answering that and the two of them walked quickly down Highland away from the park towards our house. My son said the man sat at the corner for a little then turned left and headed towards the park. He was a middle-aged "wrinkly" white man with thinning hair driving a dark/black sedan. If he had asked for directions or the time, I wouldn't have thought twice but no one innocently asks an unknown teenaged girl how old she is. I'm actually more angry than afraid. Our kids are trying to get through a really strange tough time by being flexible and inventive in how to spend time safely with friends and some creepy jerk has to harass them in broad daylight. I felt like the neighborhood should know. And if you happen to see this, you wrinkly jerk, get a damn life. You're gross.
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Valerie Sweeney