York Regional Police say<\/a> at around 1:20 a.m. a victim was walking near Hillcroft Drive and Gillingham Avenue when a suspect began following them on foot while not wearing pants and underwear. The suspect fled when the victim called police, they said.<\/p>\nThe second incident, which police said involved the same suspect, was reported the following day.<\/p>\n
Shortly before 1 a.m. on Saturday, investigators say another victim was walking near Marydale Avenue and Elson Street, just north of Steeles Avenue East and west of Markham Road, when a suspect approached, pulled down his shorts, and exposed himself. He then then fled in a westbound direction on Elson Street, toward Markham Road, police said.<\/p>\n
The suspect is described as an Asian male, who stood five-foot-six with black curly hair and glasses.<\/p>\n
Be aware of surroundings: police<\/p>\n
Police are reminding the public to stay aware of their surroundings when walking alone at night and call 9-1-1 immediately if they see anything suspicious or feel unsafe.<\/p>\n
Investigators believe there may be more victims and are urging anyone with further information to come forward.<\/p>\n
Anyone who was in either area at the time of the incidents, who witnessed suspicious activity, or who has information that may assist the investigation is asked to contact the #5 District Criminal Investigations Bureau Unit at 1-866-876-5423, ext. 7541, or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in York Region are appealing for witnesses after a man allegedly committed two indecent acts in Markham.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-815319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}