HOUSTON -- Glue attacks on unsuspecting women and girls is becoming an increasing problem, KPRC Local 2 reported Tuesday.

Within the past few weeks, police said someone has put glue in seven victims' hair while they shopped or watched movies. And the attacks are not confined to one area.

To Angela Fields, hair is a passion and an art. It shocked the cosmetology student to hear that someone, maybe multiple people, are pouring glue in women's hair as some sort of prank.

"When they go get their hair done, if something isn't right, they will throw a fit," Fields said. "I can't imagine how they'd feel having to cut a big hole out of their hair."

Fields was shopping in the same center where Pasadena police said a suspect, captured on surveillance video, followed a woman through the aisles at a Kroger store on Spencer Highway and made a mess of her hair.

Police said that suspect did the same thing on the same day to two victims at a Walgreens, also on Spencer Highway, on July 16.

The surveillance video shows the suspect leave the store. Moments later, a group of people gather around the victim -- a 12-year-old girl. "It sounds horrible," Fields said. "I would just hope that he would not come up to me because he would get hurt."

Pasadena police said moments after the suspect poured glue in someone's hair, he was overheard on his red cell phone telling someone "It's been done."

Police were not sure who the suspect spoke to or if that person is also committing similar crimes.

Days later in Sugar Land, another victim said she was glued. She said she was in the AMC First Colony movie theater when someone got her.

That woman's mother said the theater manager said that the same thing had happened to at least one other movie-goer.

"He probably thinks it's funny maybe, but it's kind of sick," shopper Jessica Brundage said.

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Fields said she can't believe this is happening so often.

"That could lower a woman's self esteem and that's horrible to do," she said.

The mother of the victim at AMC First Colony said her daughter had to cut off some of her hair. She said this was no prank. It was just plain cruel.

Stafford police said a similar incident happened at a Wal-Mart there. They fear that was the work of a copycat.

There have been a total of seven reported incidents in the Houston area. Four of them happened in Pasadena within a two-block stretch.

Police said such an attack is a class C assault punishable by a fine.