HYDE PARK — Police are looking for a man who touched a teenager inappropriately on Saturday morning on the street in East Hyde Park.
Police issued an alert after a man walked up to a teenager at 7:45 a.m. Saturday in the 5100 South Cornell Avenue and after striking up a conversation touched the boy inappropriately.
The suspect is described as a black man, 5-foot-11-inches tall in his 30s or 40s with a gray goatee wearing beige jacket, dark pants and a black hat. He's being sought for alleged criminal sexual abuse, according to police.
The teenager ran away down East Hyde Park Boulevard after the man touched him, according to police.
Police are asking anyone with information to call the Area Central Bureau of Detectives at 312-747-8380.