(March 27, 2008)—Waco police were looking for witnesses Thursday after a 12-year-old Tennyson Middle School student reported that he was kidnapped as he walked to school Wednesday morning.
The boy told police truck pulled up as he walked in the 900 block of North 43rd Street and that a man got out, approached him and grabbed him around the neck.
The boy told officers the man then forced him into the truck and began to drive off.
The youngster escaped by jumping from the moving truck in the area of Towne Oaks Drive and Sanger Avenue.
He ran home and told his mother he had been abducted.
Police were called shortly after 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.
The man was described as white, between 40- and 50-years old, standing 6-foot-1 to 6-foot-3 and having a thin build.
He had brown and gray hair and a thick mustache, police said, and was wearing a blue T-shirt and blue jeans.
The truck was a blue Chevrolet extended cab with a standard transmission, police said.
Police are asking anyone with information about the abduction or about anyone matching the man’s description to call either the Waco Police Department at (254) 750-7500 or Waco Crime Stoppers at (254) 753-HELP.
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