LORAIN — A 13-year-old Lorain girl told police a man tried to lure her into his truck while she was walking from school to meet her grandmother Wednesday afternoon.

The girl said she was walking near St. Peter church on Oberlin Avenue when a black man in a red SUV, possibly a four-door Chevy Blazer, approached her, saying “Hey, Hey, come here, girl, come here.”

She described the man as being in his 20s, clean shaven with short hair and wearing a black hat and black coat.

The girl said she took off through the Lorain National Bank parking lot, and she said the man pulled into the LNB parking lot and watcher her, then fled.

Police searched the area for the man and his vehicle but did not find it.

On Tuesday, Lorain police issued a LISA alert for another attempted abduction on Oberlin Avenue.

In that incident a girl, whose name wasn’t released, was approached by a man in his 40s driving a pickup truck outside Rebman Recreation at 5295 Oberlin Ave., police said.

The teenager was trying to cross the street at 10:32 a.m. Friday when the man stopped his truck and tried to get the girl to go with him, police said.

When that failed, he got out of his truck and walked toward her until she fled.

The victim described the man as white, in his 40s, around 200 pounds, wearing a brown stocking cap and matching brown jacket with a full beard.

The truck was described as an older red truck with a matching cap over the bed. The cap has side windows and the truck might have had an extended cab.

Contact Rona Proudfoot at 329-7124 or rproudfoot@chroniclet.com.

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