PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. (7News) — Bowie police officers have found the person responsible for grabbing a student by the backpack outside of an elementary school on Friday.
On September 19, officers from the City of Bowie Police Department responded to a report of a suspicious individual on the 12000 block of Canfield Lane. Witnesses told police that an adult man approached a student from Whitehall Elementary School and grabbed the child by their backpack as they were getting into a car.
The student’s parent and other parents present at the scene stopped the man, and he left the parking lot…