A courageous Michigan gas station clerk helped save a teenage girl who was abducted by a gun-toting stranger with a history of rape allegations while walking to her school bus stop.
The creep kidnapped the 16-year-old girl at gunpoint just after 7 a.m. Monday in Hamtramck, while she was waiting for her school bus, Hamtramck Police Department Chief Hussein Farhat told WXYZ.
Roughly 30 minutes later, the unidentified suspect brought the girl to a Sunoco gas station, where he asked for cigarettes and told the terrified teen to pay for them, the outlet reported.
“When he ask her to pay for the cigarettes, I stop and go there’s something wrong. And she mouthed talked to me, like with no sound, ‘help,’” store clerk Abdulrahman Abohatem told the local station.
Abohatem then heroically came out from behind the protective glass and confronted the man — kicking him out and ushering the kidnapped teen behind him.
“I go out, I kick him out, I ask the girl [to] go behind me,” Abohatem recalled.
Meanwhile, fellow students who witnessed the kidnapping had helped cops track the girl’s phone location, leading police cars to rush into the gas station’s parking lot as Abohatem escorted the alleged kidnapper out of the store, the outlet reported.
“I see the police outside. I point to him. I go, ‘that’s the guy’,” Abohatem recalled.
The suspect, who police said has a history of rape charges, was quickly taken into custody.
The girl and her kidnapper did not know each other, cops added.
“This is a random incident. This suspect could have driven anywhere, saw the opportunity and took advantage of it,” Farhat said.
“I feel good when you save somebody. Sixteen years old — she is child,” Abohatem said.
The suspect is set to be arraigned on Thursday, Detroit News reported.
