Greenwood woman, her mother thwart harassers in downtown Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Chloe Neuenschwander was celebrating her twenty first birthday final week in downtown Indianapolis when she stated some males tried to seize her.

Neuenschwander stated the difficulty started when her pals, dad and mom and herself on July 26 have been outdoors a bar within the 200 block of South Meridian Road. Chloe encountered a homeless man and struck up a pleasant dialog.

“There was one other gentleman who walked as much as us with a speaker, and he began singing with us and he finally ends up following our group all the way in which down by the (Monument) Circle.”

Chloe’s mother, Krista, who was with the group, sensed one thing was mistaken.

“There was truly six guys sitting on the Circle. One man truly approached the ladies as they have been collectively, they usually have been going across the women speaking to them, asking them their names.”

Krista believes the boys have been sizing up her husband and considered one of her daughter’s male pals earlier than making an attempt to make a transfer.

Chloe stated, “At one level, he checked out one other man who was following us and stated, ‘I need her. Seize her.’ My mother heard him say it. She ended up inflicting a scene, they usually ended up scattering and that was the top of it.”

Chloe snapped an image of one of many males, however the remainder of them bought away.

A spokesperson for Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Division stated no arrests have been made within the harassment case.

Since that night, Chloe and her mother enrolled in self-defense courses, and Chloe carries round Mace, an aerosol self-defense spray, when she’s out and about.

“My motive proper now could be simply to be sure that particularly ladies and youthful ladies are conscious of their environment at any level as a result of I really consider that it will by no means occur to me, particularly with my dad and mom,” Chloe stated.