A second girl reports stalking on Davison Road

ELBA TWP. — A bearded stalker first seen by a girl riding her bicycle home from The Chatfield School has been seen again, this time on Davison Road, more than six miles away from the original sighting. Lapeer City Police Det./Sgt. Craig Gormley and Lapeer County Sheriff’s Dept. Det./Sgt. Jason Parks have been trading notes, hoping to develop a better description of the suspect.

Gormley said the latest sighting reinforces the credibility of the first sighting and adds new details.

The Chatfield School student told police she encountered a man with a grey beard in a white Chevrolet van about 3:30 p.m. Oct. 19 as he pulled onto West Genesee Street from Charbridge Avenue. She said the man, who asked if she wanted a ride, spoke with a British accent and was wearing a black winter hat.

The 13-year-old Lapeer girl told police that when she declined the man’s offer, he then followed her first east on Genesee; then north on Lincoln Street; and finally east on Liberty Street before disappearing.

Deputy Mike Tappen said a 15-year-old Lapeer West High School student told him Friday that after her school bus left her home on the 3700 block of Davison Road, a white Chevrolet Venture minivan, driven by an older man with a gray goatee, pulled into her driveway. Tappen said the girl told him the man was talking on his cell phone and motioned her toward him, but he never got out of his van or approached her.

The girl told her grandmother the van’s passenger side headlight was broken out. The van stay in her yard a few minutes and then drove off on Davison Road, the girl told police.

Gormley said anyone seeing an older, bearded man in a white Chevrolet Venture or Astro van near children or a school bus stop should call Central Dispatch at 911 immediately.