Posted on 09/05/2013 7:05:04 AM PDT by tuffydoodle
A woman who was kidnapped and forced into her car by a gunman in downtown Dallas two weeks ago managed to get the attention of two teenagers in a nearby car by mouthing the words, "Help me," according to a dramatic 911 call released Wednesday.
The teens called police, and officers rescued the woman within minutes.
"Yes, I'm on the highway," Aaron Arias first told a Kaufman County Sheriff's Office dispatcher. "I'm witnessing a robbery; not a robbery -- a kidnapping."
Arias, a 19-year-old college student, and Jamal Harris, 17, a Seagoville high school student, noticed the woman in the back seat of her car at a stoplight in Seagoville.
"It's me and another guy, so we're checking out the girl in the backseat because we're like, 'OK, she's kind of attractive,'" Arias said. "And then, all of the sudden, you know, the guy is turned back, looking at us."
The woman looked panicked and was "saying 'Help me' or something, whispering it," he told the 911 operator.
The woman, 25, was kidnapped on Aug. 25 near Bryan Street after she left a downtown office building.
The 911 tape of the incident and a video recording from a sheriff's deputy's dashboard camera were released Wednesday after NBC 5 filed an open records request.
Arias and the other teenager followed the woman's car down U.S. 175 until police caught up with them in Kaufman.
"Oh my God, I'm hoping the car behind me is a police officer," Arias said. "Nope, it's not. Oh my God."
But within seconds, officers arrived and pulled over the car with the woman and the man accused of kidnapping her.
"Thank God. You guys are awesome," Arias said. "Oh my God. Oh my God. Get him! Oh my God."
The suspect, Charles Atkins Lewis Jr., remains in jail on $50,000 bond. He is charged with aggravated kidnapping.
The woman was checked by paramedics but was unhurt.
Arias, a freshman at Texas A&M in Texarkana. ironically got a tattoo of the comic book character Deadpool the day before, he said in a telephone interview.
Arias said he met the woman at the scene after the rescue.
"She hugs us," he remembered. "I would describe it as the best hug I have ever gotten."
He said he hopes to stay in contact with the woman but doesn't want to interfere with the investigation or court case.
Asked whether he considered himself a hero, he said, "She says we saved her life. I guess you could say we did. But I don't want to be that person who says they're a hero."
God bless these young men — and their natural attraction to a woman’s good looks.
But would it have been too much for the idiot writer to have explained the following for those of us who are adults and, therefore, do not read comic books anymore?
...ironically got a tattoo of the comic book character Deadpool the day before....
Black teens do act responsibly. Yea, the ones who don’t have a media that covers for them but that’s just wrong to assume socially responsible kids are white.
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You are exactly right.
There are probably as many good ‘black’ kids , percentage wise, are there are true white Conservative Americans.
Did you read about the black kids that paid their bill even though the cashier wasn’t at the register? Don’t put too much into skin color.
Did you read about the black kids that paid their bill even though the cashier wasn’t at the register? Don’t put too much into skin color.
What’s amazing is that being honest is so rare that it makes the news. Boggles the mind.
What was rare about that story is that the store was closed and the six teenage kids instead of having a free for all, got a couple of things, put the money on the counter and walked out. Yes, they were black.
Honesty shouldn’t be so shocking that it makes the news, that’s the only point I was trying to make.
That was yesteryear. Today, we live in a much different world.
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