Lawrence Police are asking for the public’s help identifying a man they say followed a 14-year-old girl through a grocery store and tried to get into her car.

The incident happened about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at Checkers Foods, 2300 La. Police on Thursday released the photo at left taken from a store security camera that they said captured a picture of the suspect.

The girl told police that the man followed her inside the store and that when she went to the parking lot to wait for her mother he tried to open the car’s driver’s side door. The girl locked the doors and the man walked away, said Sgt. Mike Pattrick, a Lawrence Police spokesman.

Police are asking anyone who recognizes the man or who has information about the incident to call the department’s detectives at 830-7430 or the Crime Stoppers hot line at 843-TIPS.

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