Peel Regional Police are asking for the public assistance after two 10-year-old girls said they were approached by a man in an SUV offering them candy while walking to school Friday morning in Brampton.

In a release, investigators from the 22 Division Criminal Investigations Bureau said the two girls were walking to school in the area of Chipwood Crescent and Archdekin Drive at approximately 8:30 a.m., when a man in a black four-door SUV approached them asking, “Do you guys want some candy?”

“The girls ran from the location as the male laughed and sped off in an unknown direction,” added police in the release.

Police described the man as black and approximately 18 years old. They added the two girls saw a young black girl approximately 10 years of age in the vehicle with the man.