Tulsa School Police, Tulsa Police Investigate Recent Attempted Abductions

Campus police are investigating several attempted abductions of Tulsa Public School students over the past couple of days. 

On Tuesday, police say an 11-year-old girl was approached as she was riding her bicycle to school.   The incident happened in the 4300 block of North Kenosha.

Tulsa Public Schools Police say a man exited his car and told the girl to come with him.  She refused and rode away on her bicycle.  When she got to school, she reported the incident to school personnel.

They described the man as a white male, 6' 1", bald with a mustache and wearing a black hooded sweatshirt.  He was driving a black Chevy Impala.

In another incident, a 15-year-old teen was walking her little sister to school.  Tulsa Police say a Hispanic male in his 40's with black and silver hair with a mustache.  The man pulled up next to her in a four-door SUV. 

"We let our children play in the community and ride their bicycles and we thought they could walk to school," said Tracy Stumbaugh, mother of the 15-year-old victim.

The girl said the man produced a knife and ordered them into his SUV, but both ran toward some construction workers who walked the pair to safely to school.

"She had the good sense to run to some construction workers and the man sped off at that point," Stumbaugh said.

Police at Tulsa Public Schools are taking the allegations seriously.

Chief Gary Rudick says the 15-year-old girl did the right thing, and that steering clear of strangers is addressed in classrooms across the district.

"I'm very confident that what's being instructed by the teachers in classrooms is hitting home with them," Chief Rudick said.

Tracy Stumbaugh is going to hold her girls a little tighter tonight, and wants to make sure other parents do the same.

"This isn't safe for them we thought it was. But they need to pay more attention the their children getting back and forth to school," she said.

If you spot a suspicious car near a school bus stop Tulsa Public Schools Police ask you to call 918-749-9966 or 911.