Sheriff’s Department hails man who saved girl from sex crime
Published: May 5, 2005
A businessman who saved a teenage girl from being sexually assaulted as she walked to school in Industry was hailed as a hero Wednesday by the sheriff’s department.
Michael Carr intervened about 7 a.m. March 11 when he heard the 14-year-old girl’s screams near his business in the 16400 block of Kaplan Avenue.
“If not for Mr. Carr’s willingness to assist the victim, the suspect would have been able to complete his assault,’ said sheriff’s Capt. Margaret Wagner.
The Sheriff’s Department presented Carr with a commendation at the Industry Station.
On the morning of the attack, the girl was walking to school when a man who remains at large grabbed her and dragged her about 100 feet to an area behind a garbage bin in an alley.
Carr, who had gone to work early that day, said afterward that he’d heard “something going on in the alley, a young girl screaming.’
“So I came out and didn’t see anything; so I go over to the Dumpster area and he’s got her by the neck and he’s strangling her,’ he said then. “So I did what anybody would do. I grabbed him and pull him off her. She just ran because she was terrified and I got him to the ground and was holding him.’
As he was trying to call to his employees for help and dial 9-1-1, the suspect got away.
Some of Carr’s employees began chasing the suspect, but after a couple of blocks, the man jumped into a full-size white van and drove off north on Echelon Avenue.
The assailant was described as a Latino man in his 30s, 5 feet 3 inches tall, 140 to 150 pounds, with thinning dark hair.
Anyone who knows his whereabouts was urged to call sheriff’s detectives at (866) 247-5877 or (323) 526-5541.
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