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Mom: Person tried to abduct child from Fulton County school bus stop

Police said they are taking the incident very seriously.

FULTON COUNTY, Ga. -- Police confirm they are looking into what a concerned mom described as an "attempted abduction" of her child as she walked to the bus stop Monday morning.

According to the child's mother, Cheree, her 10-year-old daughter Amarni walked from their home on Prestige Point to the bus stop with her grandmother Monday. The grandmother walked with the child down the street to a point where the bus stop was still in view before turning and walking back home.

The 10-year-old waited for a moment because she was meeting a friend so they could walk to the bus stop together. That's when Amarni noticed a suspicious car that she felt was inching along, following her.

"I thought it was someone trying to do something," the 10-year-old said.

Cheree, who didn't feel comfortable giving her last name, said her daughter got frightened and screamed for help and ran. A neighbor, Adrienne Price, who happened to be getting in the car to drive off for work heard her and called for her to come inside.

"I'm hearing this scream, like it's like a gut wrenching scream, and it's pitch dark," Price said. "I'm the only person that's outside other than my daughter and my daughter was even kind of looking. And I see her coming around the corner... she's running for her life. It's like a scene out of a movie. She's running and screaming saying, 'He's trying to kill me! He's trying to kill me!' and, 'He's chasing me, He's chasing me!'"

Price then called Cheree and police.

"I was very shaky. I just went blank. I mean, I was very scared, very scared," Cheree said. "I don't think that a child should ever have to be scared going to school."

When Fulton County officers arrived, about three hours later, they canvassed the area for the vehicle, but found nothing. When Cheree and Price questioned the response time, they said because the child was reported safe, they prioritized other calls. Officers are now on the lookout for a dark-colored vehicle with a headlight missing. Security video from a neighbor captured before the incident shows a vehicle matching the description given by the girl.

Neighbors in the small subdivision said they saw a similar vehicle the week before and reported it in the Next Door app.

A representative from the department told 11Alive's Faith Abubey that because no crime transpired, they're calling the occurrence "suspicious activity." However, they said things like this don't happen in this neighborhood and they are taking this incident very seriously.

11Alive's Faith Abubey will have more from Cheree and neighbors on #TheLateFeed.

Meanwhile, Cheree said she doesn't want her daughter walking alone any more.

"She did the right thing like she was supposed to do," Cheree said. "Instincts told her that this is not just a normal person in our subdivision."

She also reported the incident to the Fulton County School District and asked the bus stop be moved closer to homes inside the subdivision and not at a roundabout off site, but she has not yet gotten a response from the district. 11Alive reached out to the school district, also, but it was after hours and no one was available for comment.

This is the second incident in just a matter of days of children being approached at a bus stop. A 14-year-old girl was brutally attacked by a man who followed her inside her home as she waited for the bus. Police released a sketch for that suspect in hopes of finding him.

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