(RightIsRight.co) – A good quick-thinking middle school teacher from Texas was praised as a hero after he grabbed his gun and saved a 15-year-old girl who was being attacked outside his home.
According to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, the attacker followed the girl into a gated apartment complex after she got off a Metro bus on Houston’s east side around 12:30 a.m.
Just at that moment was when David Garza, heard the girl screaming for help outside his apartment.
“I looked out the window and I saw a man beating up a woman on the ground … trying to take her clothes off,” Garza said.
The good man immediately grabbed his gun and ran outside to confront the attacker, as shown in security footage. He said the suspect had the girl by her hair.
“I ran outside, asked what’s going on. The girl screamed, ‘I’m 15, help me!’ I pointed the gun at him and told him to get off her,” Garza recounted.
Moreover, video footage showed Garza holding the handgun on his front porch—still shirtless—and yelling, “Get away from her! Hey! Come here!”
“At first, I was scared, I thought she was going to get raped. I think if he didn’t come out, she would have gotten raped,” a neighbor said, praising Garza for saving the girl from a potential tragedy.
In turn, Garza mentioned it was not the first time he had to chase down someone attacking a child, and he said he would not hesitate to do it again even though he “was scared, too.”
“I think it’s something anyone else would have done—come help a child,” the teacher said. “She needed help more than I was afraid, so I had to do it.”
Additionally, police are asking for any information about the suspect, who was wearing a black hoodie with a white Reebok logo, blue jeans, and white tennis shoes at the time of the attack.
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