Police are looking for a man in Brownsville who may have tried to lure a child Monday morning.

Officials say the incident occurred near the corner of Rockaway and Lott Avenues just after 7:30 a.m. They say a young child walking to school was approached by a stranger offering candy and basketballs.

The 11-year-old did not fall for the man's alleged advances. Officials say the child refused the suspect's offer to join him and instead went to school and told officials what happened, who then immediately contacted police.

The suspect is described by investigators as a light-skinned black man in his 20s who was wearing a blue basketball hat, green shirt with a skull and cross on it and baggy blue jeans.

Anyone with information about the suspect is asked to call police.