"When he grabbed me, he was like, 'Come here,'" said 12-year-old Kilah Gunns.
Guns and Devinn Trimble, also 12, were walking down Cedar Lane near the Frog Hollow Golf Course when they realized they were being followed by a suspicious man. They say they tried to elude him. But the man approached them asking directions, then began cursing, then snatched Kilah up in his arms.
"He actually grabbed me and picked me up. And I started hitting him in the face and he dropped me. And then we took off screaming," said Gunns.
"We started running and he grabbed her. After that I turned around to get her and then he dropped her and took off and we ran to the house," said Trimble.
Police were called right away. The attacker ran off through some woods, only to resurface moments later.
As police launched their search for the suspect, they got a second 911 call from a quarter-mile away, at Ashland and Greenland boulevards. A second mother told police her 14-year-old daughter had just been accosted by a man matching the description of the one who had just struck roughly 15 minutes earlier.
The targets were another pair of middle school girls. One of the girls was grabbed around the waist from behind, but she fought him off. The man once again fled and remains at large.
"We always hear about luck in numbers, and in both incidents there were two girls which is very, very unusual. They were doing exactly the right thing," by walking together, said Middletown Police Chief Henry Tobin.
The suspect is described as an Asian male, 23 to 30 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall, wearing a white hoodie jacket, blue jeans, black sneakers, black hair with a buzz cut and with light facial hair moustache, with hair on his chin.
If you you can help detectives find this suspect you are urged to call Middletown Police right away at (302) 376-9950.
---Includes information from: The News Journal of Wilmington, Del., http://www.delawareonline.com
