A teenage girl in Florida successfully fought off a man who allegedly tried to abduct her on the way home from school.
The suspect remains at large, while Lauderhill police said they are investigating the incident as an attempted kidnapping.
A $5,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the man’s arrest.
Surveillance footage from Monday, Oct. 7, shows the moment when Kymorah Reid, 13, got off the school bus in Lauderhill outside Fort Lauderdale when a man approached from behind and grabbed her ankle.
“I was screaming at him, saying, ‘What are you doing? Get off me,’” Kymorah told local station WPLG.
The girl kicked the man and ran away, screaming for help. The attacker fled on foot.
Kymorah came home in a panic and told her mother what just happened, but when she ran outside, the suspect was gone.
Kymorah sustained scrapes on her ankle and elbow but was otherwise OK.
“We don’t know if she was followed [or] if this guy was just casing the area waiting for a potential victim,” officer Antonio Gonzales told the station. “She was definitely a brave child to put up a fight.”