The mother of an 11-year-old girl who was attacked on her way home from school last week says that Chicago police picked up a possible suspect Monday after community members identified him near the scene of the Washington Park incident.
Lissy Wakefield, whose 11-year-old daughter was grabbed and sexually assaulted Thursday afternoon as she walked home from school in the 6200 block of South Indiana Avenue, says that detectives told her that the man is not being charged yet in the case, but police have not confirmed details about the latest developments in the case.
Wakefield told NBC 5 that community members located a man who matched the description of the suspect given to police by her daughter following the assault. Those community members apparently held the man until police arrived on the scene, and he was taken to a local hospital. She says her daughter identified the man as police arrived.