TAYLOR, Mich. (WXYZ) - A shopping trip turned into a unsettling ordeal for a metro Detroit woman, and according to Taylor police, she wasn't the only one targeted.

Shellee Hatch recalls August 9th and an encounter she said ultimately left her in shock while shopping at a Target near Southland Mall in Taylor.

After the same man appeared in three different store aisles, she said he struck up a conversation that went on a little too long.

Women report man squirting lotion on their backsides, wiping it off: Taylor PD

Hatch said,  I started to walk away (because) I started to feel a little uncomfortable. Like, is he following me? 

She recalled,  As I started to walk away, he said, 'Wait, you have something on your backside.' And I said,  My backside? What you mean?' And he says,  here', and he wiped my butt. And I went,  Uh, uh huh,' like that and he says,  Here it was'. 

Hatch described,  And on my hand was just nothing but white lotion. Like, a lot of lotion. And I said,  Oh my gosh, where did I get that from? 

In the moment, she didn't think much of it.

Hatch told 7 News Detroit,  I said,  Oh my gosh, thank you for telling me. Cause I always think people are super nice and are going to be helpful. Right? . 

 And he said, 'Yea, no problem. So, I started to walk away and he went like that again to my butt',  she recalled.

Twenty minutes later, Hatch said she spotted a Taylor police officer in the store, and that's when she learned she wasn't alone.

Detective Zachary DiGiacomo told 7 News Detroit,  Both incidences happened in the same day... within the hour of each other. 

He said both incidents were caught on store surveillance cameras.

 An individual, male, squirted lotion on the first female's butt. She noticed it,  DiGiacomo said.

He said that other woman then told store security, who then notified police.

Hatch's daughter, Colleen Rowland, posted about the incident on social media.

 She's now uncomfortable going to that Target. I had went with her... within the last week,  she explained.

 She had asked me to go with her to go shopping for my nephew because she didn't want

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