- November 8, 2024
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A woman was walking out of the Walmart on Cypress Point Parkway when a man walked up behind her and tried to grab her breasts, she told a Flagler County Sheriff’ s Office deputy.
The incident happened at about 4:52 p.m. July 27, according to a Sheriff’s Office case report.
The woman, a Palm Coast resident, had walked out of the store’s main entrance when a man wearing an “Army green” shirt and white board shorts began following her, she told the deputy. The man said, “Can I touch your (profanity),” and the woman “saw hands reaching around her and turned around and looked at the male,” according to the case report.
The woman told the man to get away from her, and another man in a white pickup truck stopped and “deterred the male from continuing his actions,” according to the report.
The woman told a deputy that the man hadn’t actually touched her, and that she hadn’t seen him before. He had an accent that sounded Scottish or Irish, she said. She didn’t report the incident until almost 6:30 p.m., telling a deputy that she hadn’t called earlier because “she was focused on getting home to let her dogs out and did not think anything of it.”
A deputy checked the store’s surveillance video, which showed a man who matched the description the woman had given following the woman out of the store.
“The male appears to reach his arms around (the woman) and there appears to be some sort of verbal exchange between the two of them,” a deputy wrote in the case report, summarizing the video. “(The woman) continues walking and the male seems to take a few steps in her direction but then turns around and walks away,” the deputy continued.
The man appeared to walk toward a dark colored vehicle. A deputy took a copy of the surveillance video footage as evidence.
