Heroes save Bronx mom
Published: August 8, 2007
A Bronx mom and her grateful husband have a big thank you waiting for two good Samaritans who saved her yesterday from a carjacker.
Awilda Rivera, 36, had just dropped her 12-year-old daughter Rebecca off at Middle School 144 in Allerton and was at a red light on Allerton Ave. when a stranger yanked open the passenger door, jumped in and ordered her to drive off, Rivera’s husband, Peter, said.
Instead, he said, his wife started screaming and honking her horn.
A nearby school crossing guard who saw the incident dialed 911 on her cell phone. At the same time, a man in a Lincoln Town Car and another man driving a construction company van jumped out of their vehicles, Peter Rivera said.
As they approached, the attacker jumped out of her car and ran, with the two good Samaritans in hot pursuit.
“They were able to corner this guy about five, six blocks away, and the cops descended on him,” Rivera said.
Police said the suspect, Carlos Morales, 38, a homeless man, injured his ankle when he kicked in the back door of a building trying to elude his pursuers. He was treated at Jacobi Medical Center before being charged with burglary and robbery.
“I just want to say thank you to these two strangers,” Peter Rivera said.
“We have three girls, and the possibility of what could have happened to my wife …,” he said, leaving his sentence hanging. “My wife is safe and I just want to say thank you.”
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