'School bus lurker' scares parents in Wake County
RALEIGH (WTVD) -- A Wake County mother is warning her neighbors about a predator after she says her 16-year-old daughter was harassed by an older man while waiting for her school bus Monday morning.
It happened around 7:30 a.m. on the corner of Method Road and Woods Place in west Raleigh.
Wanda Coker told Eyewitness News her daughter's school bus to Athens Drive High School was running late. As she waited at her designated bus stop, the girl said a man driving a white pickup truck with black lettering on the side and a white barrel in the back pulled up on the wrong side of the road to get next to her.
The girl said the man started yelling lewd comments about her body and told her repeatedly to get in the truck.
Coker recounted the terrifying ordeal. "He yelled for her, 'Come on! Get in the car! Get in the car! Come on, come on, get in the car.' And she said, 'No! No no no no!' and ran!"
Coker said her daughter ran home as the man turned down Woods Place into their neighborhood. She called Raleigh police and filed a report.
"I knew something was wrong by the time she got in, it was like 'oh my God!' Even though she couldn't speak and tell me exactly what had happened, I knew she had been violated in some manner," she said.
A spokesperson for the Raleigh Police Department said they have not had any similar incidents in the district. Officers have been advised to be on the lookout for the suspect's vehicle.
Now Coker is warning her neighbors about the predator.
"He's bold," she said. "I think everyone should know."
