Mountain View detectives are asking for our community’s help to identify a man who repeatedly grabbed a woman inappropriately in a Walmart over the weekend.

On Saturday, Oct. 8 around noon, Mountain View dispatchers received a call that a woman had been grabbed multiple times by an unknown man while she was shopping inside the Walmart, located on the 600 block of Showers Drive.

Officers responded to the scene and spoke with the victim, who told them that initially while she and her family were looking at Halloween costumes, the man touched her inappropriately.The woman then went to a different aisle, and the same man approached her and touched her again. The woman told her husband who attempted to run after the suspect. The suspect, however, left the store in an unknown direction. We do not know if he drove away from the store in a car.

The suspect is described as a Black adult man in his 40s, roughly 5 feet 10 inches tall with a medium build and weighing between 170 pounds and 180 pounds. He was last seen wearing a black mask, a sky-blue polo shirt with stripes and black pants.

If anyone recognizes this individual, please contact us a police@mountainview.gov.

Media inquiries can be sent to PIO Katie Nelson at policepio@mountainview.gov.