A 9-year-old girl in Florida was praised for her bravery after fighting a man who attacked her mother.
Surveillance footage obtained by the southern Florida television station WPTV shows that on November 2, Journee Nelson and her mother Danielle Mobley were loading groceries into her car at a West Palm Beach supermarket. Demetrius Jackson, then 29, ran over and attacked Mobley. .
As shown in the video, he seemed to knock her to the ground, and then there was a fight for the wallet.
But the little girl ran out of the passenger seat of the car and punched him back several times.
“She actually jumped up and chased four houses in the block, and I chased her and told her to come back,” Mobley said at a press conference on Thursday.
In the end, the attacker was able to escape the wallet, which contained mobile phones, bank cards, cash, her wallet and her hidden carrying permit. Miami herald.
According to WPTV, the police tracked down an abandoned house by phone, where they found Mobley’s belongings. They collected fingerprint evidence that allegedly linked Jackson to the incident.
Two days later, Mobley and her daughters were asked to identify him from the photo lineup, and he was subsequently arrested. According to WPTV, he faces battery and robbery charges.
Mobley gave a gentle compliment to her daughter’s behavior.
“I am very proud of her, this was her initial reaction,” Mobley told WSVN-TV. “I hope that sometimes, things may be different because she is still dealing with this issue mentally.”
Nelson told the radio station that at first she thought Jackson had run out of the store, but soon realized that he was running towards her mother.
She told WSVN: “I fought back. I must save my mother.”
On Thursday, West Palm Beach police held a press conference to recognize Nelson’s bravery. She received medals, certificates and Target gift cards, Herald Report.
He does not recommend confronting the accused thief during the crime. The local police chief Frank Adderly said: “I don’t recommend that you face such a person, but at the most intense moment when things happen.” Herald.
However, he said her actions had brought “positive results.”
“I bet he would be shocked when she slapped him in the face, because you can clearly see from the tape that he didn’t expect this. In this particular situation, her behavior was the perfect timing. , I think she hit him very hard,” he said. Said.
Mobley said her daughter wandered back and forth between wanting to be a policeman or a teacher when she grew up. pioneer.
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