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2 kids run away after stranger offers them a ride to school in Grand Rapids

Posted at 8:09 AM, Sep 04, 2014
and last updated 2014-09-04 08:08:16-04

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A stranger offered a ride to school to two children on Grand Rapids’ northwest side, police said.

It happened shortly after 7 a.m. on 5th Street on September 4. The children told their mother that a man in a red SUV pulled up to them, rolled down his window, and offered them a ride to school. They said no and turned around to go back home.

Police are investigating the incident.