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CMPD searching for man who kidnapped East Meck High School student

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Police in east Charlotte are still looking for a man who allegedly forced a 16-year-old boy into his car at gunpoint and then made sexual advances toward him.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said the man kidnapped the boy while he was walking to school.

“Yeah, I'm terrified,” the mother of the teenager told Eyewitness News on Monday, four days after her son told police that he was walking to East Mecklenburg High School and a man in a white car pulled up alongside him and asked if her son knew his son.

“My son told him no.  That's when the man pulled out the gun and told him to get in the car so my son got in the car.  He's a child.  What else is he supposed to do?  He was scared,” the woman said.

She said her son’s fear only grew when the man drove into a nearby neighborhood and then made clear what he wanted.

“The man offered him some money for him to take his clothes off.  My son told him no.  The man locked the doors.”

She said at that point her son knew he had to get away, and when the man reached under his front seat to grab something, the boy made his move.

“He unlocked the doors and he jumped out while the car was moving.

My son has scrapes on his hips, his elbow,” his mother said.

The boy walked home and called police.

He described the suspect as a black male in his 30s, about 5-foot-9 and weighing 200 pounds, with shoulder- length dreadlocks.  The teenager said he was driving a newer model white Chevy Malibu or Impala.

Anyone with any information should call 911 or contact Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600.