UPDATE: Children made up story about white man urinating on black girl: police

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- A man is accused of urinating on a 5-year-old girl in a Northwest Grand Rapids alley and calling her a racial slur, police said.

Grand Rapids police responded about 6:10 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 23 to a residence after the parents of a 5-year-old black girl called to report that a man had urinated on their daughter.

The man was described as white and about 60 years old.

Police talked to witnesses -- two 7-year-old children and another 5-year-old -- and determined the incident happened in an alley behind the 1000 block of Leonard Street NW.

The child witnesses, as well as the 5-year-old victim, told police the man also called her a n----r.

Police said the 5-year-old was not physically harmed.

Using the children's description of the man, police then canvassed the neighborhood and identified a possible suspect and residence where he was staying.

Officers initially found no one home at the residence, but a neighbor later called police to tell them the man had returned. Police then went back to the residence and took the man into custody without incident.

Police said detectives with the department's Family Services Team are investigating the incident and working with the Children's Advocacy Center to provide counseling for the child victim and witnesses.

Police said the suspect is held in the Kent County Jail on an unspecified felony pending a case review by Kent County prosecutors.