Sheriff’s office looking for stranger who offered child ride home from school

Update 12:15 p.m.: This article has been updated to include a comment from the Sheriff’s Office regarding the reported incident at Englewood Elementary.

The Marion County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a male who approached a student walking home from school from Mary Eyre Elementary School on Thursday.

“The stranger is reported to have offered the child a ride and continued to follow them after they said no,” said Sgt. Jeremy Landers, spokesman for the…