Two men stopped a Mission West Elementary fifth-grade boy as he walked home from school Tuesday and apparently tried to abduct him, according to a letter sent to parents by Principal Deana Cady.
The men got out of a white van and stopped the boy in the Great Oaks South neighborhood, but the boy was able to run. “The student reported that the two men chased him down the street and tried to grab him, and then drove off,” Cady said in the letter.
The two were described only as a white man and a Hispanic man, both 25 to 30 years old. Anyone with information about the men or their white van is asked to call the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s office at 281-341-4666.
Cady said the sheriff’s department is investigating the incident, and extra police patrols will be in the neighborhood around Mission West, at 7325 Clodine-Reddick Road, before and after school.
Fort Bend County and Fort Bend Independent School District law enforcement agencies met March 29 to craft a strategy for dealing with what has become a rash of attempted abductions of students.
Ironcially, on the same day as the meeting Sugar Land Police arrested a man and charged with with attempted kidnapping.
Forty-two-year-old Derwin Alan Williams was arrested at 5:10 p.m. Wednesday. He was transported to the Fort Bend County Jail in Richmond on attempted kidnapping charges, then was released on bond.
Police believe Williams approached a 13-year-old Covington Woods boy and tried lure the boy into his truck on Tuesday morning. The incident is one of at least 10 recently reported.
