OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Another woman has come forward saying she too was followed by an 18-year-old accused Monday of stalking an Overland Park woman.
A 20-year-old woman says she spoke with police Wednesday after seeing Eric Kaplan’s mugshot on the news and hearing he is charged with stalking another woman.
The woman told police Kaplan spoke to her inside the McDonald’s on 199th and Roe before following her to work.
“I saw that was him and I was like ‘Oh my God’ like, so I looked on my phone, I read the news article and that he had some like stuff in his car and so that kind of was like ‘oh my gosh. That would have been me.’ Like I could have been abducted or something,” she told Fox 4.
The woman says she pulled up the news featuring Kaplan’s mugshot.
“I was like, that is him,” she explained.
She knew it was him, the same man who she says first spoke to her inside the McDonald’s on her dinner break in mid-May.
“As I go to sit down he comes up behind me and he goes, ‘It must be nice getting free things because of how beautiful you are’. I shrugged it off as a complement and said ‘oh thanks’ you know,” she said.
She says what was creepy is when she left to go back to work and realized the man was now closely following her in his black BMW. The same make and color of car Kaplan was in when he was stopped and arrested Sunday night.
“So I go the back way into my store and he does, he follows me the whole entire time,” she explained.
The woman says for the next two hours Kaplan paced back and forth in front of her store window while staring in. She says right before closing he left and she never saw him again.
She didn’t call police until she realized it was Kaplan who was pulled over for following another woman who says in his car the police found a black ski mask, gloves, lubricant and a knife.
“You see on the news all the time about women disappearing and murders and stuff so that kind of worries me a little bit is being abducted and never being found,” she said.
The woman tells us she provided police her story Wednesday afternoon.
Overland Park police say the detective assigned to the case was not in this evening to provide any details on this new information.
They say the case against Kaplan is still under investigation.
