Two Elderly Women Brutally Attacked on Street. Then Homeless Man Jumps In To Save Them
Surveillance cameras outside of a Shoppers World on Pitkin Avenue in New York captured the frightening moment two elderly women were attacked by a complete stranger on the street for no apparent reason.
In the video, the two women, both in their 70s, can be seen walking down the street, one pulling a cart behind her, when suddenly a crazed homeless man springs into view.
Before the women had time to react, the man punched the woman with the cart in the face, sending her head-first into the building beside her. He then quickly punched the woman behind her, knocking her to the ground.
Just as the man attempted to flee the scene, the camera captured the moment another homeless man, who’d previously passed by on camera, raced back onto the scene.
He eventually tackled the crazed attacker to the ground and held him there until witnesses were able to call the police.
A woman named Jacaira Baez Mercedes, who was working in the store at the time, witnessed the end of the attack.
“I saw two men wrestling on the corner, and I was like they’re probably play fighting,” Mercedes said.
“And when I came here I saw she was bleeding. She was asking for help in her language, and she didn’t know what to do.”
“It was bad. She was bleeding from her head and we had to give her tissue,” she said, referencing the first woman the attacker punched.
“He risked it all,” she said of the hero who jumped in to rescue the women.
“We should have more people like him in the neighborhood because he actually saved her from getting more hurt. And he held the man down until the police came,” she added
The attacker was arrested by police and taken in for a psychiatric evaluation.
Thanks to the heroic actions of this good Samaritan, both women survived the ordeal and were transported to the hospital. And thankfuly, they were later released after their injuries were treated.
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