The man has been charged with an indecent act, investigators said in a statement. He will appear in court on Tuesday, May 3. The victim, identified by CBC News as MJ to protect his identity, said he noticed she was being followed by a man in a truck around 4pm on Thursday as she walked down Elbow Drive and Fourth Street SW . The man allegedly went up the street next to her, went down to his window and tried to talk to her, so MJ noticed that he was unloaded from the waist down and was “completely masturbating”. She screamed and the man fled south along Fourth Street in the truck. Police said the victim was able to note the license plate number of the vehicle and provided a detailed description of the perpetrator. Investigators later identified the vehicle as a white Dodge truck. MJ said she called police after the incident. When no police officer showed up after 40 minutes, she called a friend to pick her up. “We acknowledge that there has been frustration with the timing of our response to this incident and are working to determine exactly what happened,” police said in a statement. “We thank the victim for the excellent details about the suspect and the license plate of the suspect’s vehicle in a stressful and worrying situation.”
