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RCMP provide update on abduction investigation at a media availability held July 22, 2025
July 22, 2025
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Whitehorse, Yukon
From: Yukon RCMP
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Yukon RCMP continue to investigate the kidnapping of a child that occurred in the Porter Creek subdivision area on July 20, 2025. The following statement was provided at the press conference.
During the evening of July 20, 2025, a 9-year-old girl was playing at a playground in the Porter Creek neighborhood with other children, and walked home by herself.
She was expected to be home around 9:30pm, and when did not arrive her parents and family went looking in the neighborhood.
As the word spread, other neighbors also helped look for the child.
The parents reported the child as missing to the RCMP at 9:53 pm. Whitehorse Detachment immediately responded.
Whitehorse RCMP along with Police Dog service flooded the area canvassing neighbors, securing and reviewing video, and searching properties and trails in the area.
Police were notified at 11:06pm that the child had been found by her parents in the same neighborhood where she was last seen.
It was discovered that the child was forced into a vehicle while walking along Grove Street.
Police are investigating this incident as a kidnapping. To respect the integrity of the investigation, police will not release any further details about the offence at this time.
As a result of the investigation to date, police have released information in an effort to identify the suspect.
- Caucasian male with medium build.
- Light skin, blue eyes, medium to long reddish colored hair and red facial hair
- Tattoo on his neck in the shape of the sun
- Tattoo on his hand in the shape of a heart,
- Various other tattoos on both arms.
Although police are continuing efforts to identify the vehicle, they do believe the vehicle involved is a smaller vehicle, possibly an SUV which may be blue or grey in color.
As police gather more concrete information about the vehicle, they may update this information.
Police learned there was a young child in the vehicle who was believed to be known or related to the suspect.
RCMP are aware of the information being shared on the social media and want to caution on the risks to the investigation in sharing details publicly. If you have information to provide please call the RCMP and share with them directly, this will help ensure that investigators have captured all available information, and all leads have been followed up on.
Police want to the thank the public for the information they have provided to date. We want to assure you all tips and information provided has been assigned to the investigative team and are being followed up on.
Police also want to thank those who have provided video to the investigators. Police are still looking for video available in the Porter Creek subdivision from 8pm to 1130pm on July 20. If you have come home to an RCMP business card in your door, please kindly return the phone call to the investigator and leave them a message if they are unavailable.