How a car key saved this woman from a random attack
Sometimes the key to surviving a random attack is right in your mitts.
That’s the message a youthfull mother in Texas is spreading after she used a car key to defend herself from a fiend who assaulted her outside her vehicle at an apartment elaborate in Amarillo on Friday.
“I realized I left my phone charger in my car,” Collins recalled on Facebook hours after the onslaught. “So I unlock my car and grab the cord and then step back (to shut the door) when a Hispanic masculine punched me in the nose. Gratefully I had my keys in a defense position because I gave him a right hook and ended up getting him in the neck then he ran one way (holding his neck) and I ran the other way into my apt building and got inwards my apt then called the police.”
Officer Jeb Hilton of the Amarillo Police Department told The Post that the attack appeared to be random. No arrests had been made as of Monday afternoon.
Collins said the attack was a appalling reminder that women need to be alert at all times and that you should always consider what can be used as a weapon to defend yourself.
“I am just attempting to raise awareness so many women and chicks these days don’t pay attention or think until it’s too late,” Collins wrote. “So I’m not only attempting to inform people but maybe even save lives … Ladies if ur going somewhere alone always always carry your keys with one inbetween two knuckles .”
Collins post contained three photos documenting the attack, including one of the bloodied key she said pierced the neck of her attacker.
“Please be careful out there,” she wrote. “He’s still out there somewhere and I know there are very likely others like this.”
Collins picked up the tactic from her mother, who learned the keys-as-a-weapon maneuver from a self-defense documentary for women, she told KPRC.
“I was packed with fear, but my very first thought was punch him so I can run to my apartment,” she told the station.
Collins’ Facebook post had been collective more than 73,000 times as of Monday afternoon. It also caught the eye of her father, who said he was proud of his daughter’s courage to fight back.
“That’s so awesome. Fifty four thousand people, who all know some lady, some teenage, some woman somewhere, whom they collective this with,” Chris Collins posted. “That might just think of this story someday, and have the courage to say NO! I won’t be just another victim!”
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