A report of an attempted abduction last Sunday has neighbors near the Ford birth site at 32nd and Woolworth Avenue on edge.
Laura Green tells 6 News she witnessed Sunday's kidnapping attempt. Green says she saw a woman standing near a parked car. "And I saw her fall and I thought she had just slipped on ice."
All of that changed when the car sped off and the woman approached Green's car in a panic. "Crying and shaking and said they just tried to grab me and pull me into their car," Green described to 6 News.
The woman, identified by Omaha Police as a 23-year-old says the man asked her for directions.
"She said, well I didn't want to be rude," Green says the woman told her. "So I went up to the car to help give him directions and that's when he got out of the car and tried to grab me."
Green posted what happened on the Nextdoor app and several others commented about similar experiences in the same area recently.
"Another woman said that her 15-year-old daughter, a similar incident where somebody tried to abduct her," Green says.
After Sunday's incident, OPD sent an alert to officers across the city. "Of course officers that work that area were advised and will continue to follow up and keep a lookout for the vehicle and the suspect in the days moving forward," OPD Officer Michael Pecha tells 6 News.
For those in the area left feeling uneasy by an alleged attempted kidnapping, Officer Pecha says there are steps you can take.
"Carry either a whistle, or mace, or a cellphone with them," Pecha says. "And, you know, yell and fight to try and draw attention to the situation to best be able to get out of that situation."
Right now, police don't have anyone in custody in connection with Sunday's case.