Post by LadyBlue on Jun 6, 2007 11:15:22 GMT -5
young, goateed man videotaped leaving a Target store moments before the apparent abduction of an 18-year-old woman from the adjoining parking lot is being sought for questioning, investigators said.
The man had not been identified and was not being called a suspect, but he might have information about the disappearance of Kelsey Smith, Overland Park Police Chief John Douglas said.
Kelsey’s parents, Greg and Missy Smith, said Wednesday on “The Early Show” that they do not know the man in the surveillance video.
“None of our immediate family recognize him,” Greg Smith told CBS.
Police on Tuesday released surveillance video showing an older-model Chevrolet pickup truck that they believe was involved in the teen’s disappearance Saturday. They earlier released video showing a woman they believe is Smith being forced into her car.
Just before 7 p.m. Saturday, the 1970s-model pickup pulled into the parking lot aisle where Smith had parked about one minute earlier, police said. A man is seen leaving the pickup and going into the Target store Smith had entered.
‘We see activity’
Smith, who graduated from high school less than two weeks ago, left the store around 7:10 p.m. and put packages into her car when someone ran toward her, police said.
“You see two individuals come together, and there is no separation of those two individuals,” Douglas said. “So it is easy to conclude there was some kind of incident at the back of the car. Then the car leaves.”
But the tape was “just not detailed enough” and was being enhanced at a forensics lab, Douglas said.
“We see activity,” Douglas said of the videotape. “We are moving on the assumption — because the prudent thing to do is to treat this as an abduction — that there was some kind of force involved.”
More than 50 detectives and officers from the area and the FBI were involved in the case, he said.
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The man had not been identified and was not being called a suspect, but he might have information about the disappearance of Kelsey Smith, Overland Park Police Chief John Douglas said.
Kelsey’s parents, Greg and Missy Smith, said Wednesday on “The Early Show” that they do not know the man in the surveillance video.
“None of our immediate family recognize him,” Greg Smith told CBS.
Police on Tuesday released surveillance video showing an older-model Chevrolet pickup truck that they believe was involved in the teen’s disappearance Saturday. They earlier released video showing a woman they believe is Smith being forced into her car.
Just before 7 p.m. Saturday, the 1970s-model pickup pulled into the parking lot aisle where Smith had parked about one minute earlier, police said. A man is seen leaving the pickup and going into the Target store Smith had entered.
‘We see activity’
Smith, who graduated from high school less than two weeks ago, left the store around 7:10 p.m. and put packages into her car when someone ran toward her, police said.
“You see two individuals come together, and there is no separation of those two individuals,” Douglas said. “So it is easy to conclude there was some kind of incident at the back of the car. Then the car leaves.”
But the tape was “just not detailed enough” and was being enhanced at a forensics lab, Douglas said.
“We see activity,” Douglas said of the videotape. “We are moving on the assumption — because the prudent thing to do is to treat this as an abduction — that there was some kind of force involved.”
More than 50 detectives and officers from the area and the FBI were involved in the case, he said.
www.findkelsey.com/images/truck2.jpg
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19065065/