The girl was walking on Westmount Drive, between Maywood Road and Paterson Street in the city’s Windsor Park neighborhood, around 12:45 p.m. when a man approached her, the Winnipeg Police Department said in a news release Wednesday. The man grabbed and hugged the girl before breaking free, police said. A passerby who saw the fight unfold checked on the girl before looking for the man involved, the release said. The driver soon found the man walking nearby near the intersection of Westmount Drive and Cottonwood Road. He confronted the man and took two photos of him, which police shared Wednesday. Both show the back of a person walking on a sidewalk. The man believed to be a suspect in the incident was last seen walking north on Northumbria Bay from Cottonwood Drive, the release said. He is described as being between 35 and 40 years old and between six foot two and six foot four. He has a thin build and a rounded nose, police said. The man was wearing gold wire-rimmed glasses, a blue/gray jacket, dark navy or black cargo pants, black shoes and a gray, black and white camouflage backpack, the release said. Police are asking anyone with information about the incident to call child abuse unit investigators at 204-986-3296 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 204-786-8477.
