RENTON, Wash. — UPDATE: Police have identified the suspect in a series of crimes against children in Renton and Federal Way as 40-year-old Remy Amon. Amon is originally from the Ivory Coast of Africa, police said Wednesday.
Police say Amon is a transient with ties to Washington and Alaska, who speaks with a heavy accent and wears strong cologne. See his photo above or embedded below.
Anyone who spots Amon or knows of his whereabouts is asked to call 911.
EARLIER STORY:
Renton Police are searching for the man they say groped a 10-year-old girl at Walmart and tried to lure at least two others, the youngest victim was only 5-years-old.
Investigators say the crimes took place on Sunday at the Walmart store in Renton at 743 Rainier Avenue South.
Two 10-year-old cousins were walking around looking at toys together when police say the man talked to them. He offered to buy them a board game or give them money for a board game, according to police. At one point he grabbed one of the girls below the belt. The girls ran and told an adult.
Later that same night police responded when a man fitting the same description offered a 5-year-old girl a cookie to try to get her to come with him. The girl ran and told her parents.
When investigators reviewed surveillance video, they found a third incident, which has them very concerned. The man is seen talking to a girl in a green sweatshirt Sunday afternoon around 1:30 p.m.
The video shows the two standing together and at one point she jumps back. He appears to say something and she steps closer, then the girl walks down the aisle with the suspect following her.
They disappear from the view of the surveillance camera. Detectives don't know what happened to the girl, the incident was not reported and now they are trying to identify her.
They believe could be between 6 to 8 years old.
They want her family to call investigators.
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