Detective Guy Baker said the woman was walking home from campus around 10 p.m., heading north on the bridge when a white man approached her and asked to borrow a cell phone, saying his car had broken down.
When the woman handed the man her phone, he began walking toward a car parked on the west end of the Eastgate Shopping Center. As the woman followed him over to the car, the man tried to force her into the vehicle.
“The fact that we have a suspect who tried to get the victim into the vehicle concerns us more than if he had tried to rob her or something at the scene, because obviously he was trying to take her someplace less public,” Baker said.
The woman told police that the vehicle was a mid- to late-'80s or early '90s Honda model. She said the man was in his early 20s, wore a dark hooded sweatshirt and stood about 6 feet tall.
Police are looking for anyone who witnessed a man loitering in the area, or for any women who were confronted in a similar manner, either near the footbridge or elsewhere.
Anyone with information should call Detective Baker at (406) 552-6284.
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