‘I was going to fight’: Woman recalls creepy encounter with man wearing Chucky mask in Philadelphia<\/a><\/p>\nPolice released photos Martin snapped of a suspect running from the scene after the alleged assault, which happened around 4:15 p.m. in the city’s Point Breeze neighborhood.<\/p>\n
A witness described seeing a woman chasing the man.<\/p>\n
“A woman was running after the suspect with her bike helmet and saying, ‘How dare you? How dare you?” the witness said.<\/p>\n
Martin said she stepped in after seeing how shaken the victim was.<\/p>\n
“When I saw her face and how upset she was, I was really mad that someone would do that to someone. I was holding my bike helmet, so I started hitting him with it,” she said. “I realized, ‘You’re putting yourself in an unsafe situation.'”<\/p>\n
So, she then took photos of the man and returned to check on the victim.<\/p>\n
Martin provided the photos to detectives.<\/p>\n
She credits training and learning about the harmful ‘bystander effect’ for spurring her into action.<\/p>\n
“If you see something, say something. There’s a lot of power in calling out gross behavior. He didn’t stop because she was yelling; it wasn’t until I, outside the situation, interrupted him and said, ‘What you’re doing isn’t OK,” she said.<\/p>\n
Martin accompanied the victim to the Special Victims Unit to make a report.<\/p>\n
Police are still searching for the suspect.<\/p>\n
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