Posted on 06/16/2013 12:49:10 PM PDT by marktwain
BAYTOWN, Texas -- A Baytown mother fought back – and won – when an armed robber threatened her and her two young sons, according to police.
Dorothy Baker was just driving home from CVS with her sons, ages 5 and 2, when a man crept up from the third row of their minivan with a knife.
He demanded money.
“So I asked him how much he needed and he said $200,” Baker said. “And I told him I didn’t have that kind of cash, I had about $20 in my account, and he said I better figure out a way to get it, or my kids were going to get hurt.”
Thinking fast and acting even faster, the mother of six ignored his request at one point to make a turn.
She said he then leaped up to the front row and realized she had dialed 911 on her cell phone. Instinct took over and she was able to rip the knife out of his hand.
She said she then pushed him to the passenger seat and punched him in the face, all while they were still moving.
“And I told him to get the hell out of my car,” she said. “And he said ‘fine.’ He got out and started running and the next thing I thought was if he gets away he can do this to somebody else.”
So she pursued him.
“He kind of ‘zagged’ and I turned, intending to clip him in the side or something to get him to stop,” she said. “And I ended up running completely over him.”
Baytown police identified the man as 53-year-old Ismael Martinez. He was taken to Memorial Hermann via Life Flight, where he was listed in stable condition.
Records reveal he served time in the TDC after a 1976 rape conviction.
Many people are praising the mom, who is now covered in scratches.
Baker does not see why.
“I see myself as a mom trying to protect her kids,” she said. “That’s it.”
She believes Martinez had spotted her family earlier in the day when they were at a Kroger across the street from the CVS.
She said he was smoking a cigarette and watching them, and that she recognized him the moment she saw him in her van.
Jury nullification works on this one.
Wait until the Texas verison of thelynch Zimmerman mob sinks their teeth into her.
I doubt it. Maybe she will be given a dinner.
WTG, mom!
All in front of her children, endangering the welfare of her own kids by exposing them to her uncontrolled outburst of rage on this poor former rapist.”
LOL, you’re good!!!!
I now hate that murderous woman after reading your text. Her kids should be taken from her without delay.
Good thing this didn’t happen in the UK - she’d be the one going to jail.
Ismael Martinez looks like Horaldo Rivera on a bad hair day.
And what’s up with the Life-Flight for the perp. Roadkill ought to stay in the road. Buzzards gotta eat too yah know, not to mention the lost Youtube opportunities.
“...where he was listed in stable condition. “
Too bad. Now the taxpayers are left getting screwed.
Serpentine. Serpentine.
i think the states would be better off forcing the libtards cities in their states to be independent entities not part of the state.
cordon them off and in a few years after they’ve all thunderdomed themselves to death, comeback in and clean the place up, or if they’ve trashed it too badly, nuke it from orbit.
So if you say...now I gotta beat the crap out of ya...as a warning, its OK?
they praised her by covering her in scratches??? Oh, weekend editors ... never mind.
It’s the only way to be sure ;-)
LOL he was just another speed bump.
Don’t laugh: http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3031963/posts
Your honor...because he needed killin'.
What’s the prize for the FReeper who lives closest to the location of this incident?
Can’t really get any more conservative than here in Baytown, TX.
That perp is either Geraldo Rivera’s twin brother, or Gerry has aged badly over the last few months and is down on his luck.
That lucky FReeper gets to help post followup articles on how this gutsy lady gets treated.
Just contact me by freepmail if you want, and I can post them.
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