A dramatic video showed the moment a good Samaritan came to the aid of a woman who was being attacked by two bandits on a motorcycle in Ecuador.
The victim was in his vehicle in the Sauces 8 neighborhood of Guayaquil on Saturday morning when the suspects approached him.
One of the men can be heard telling the woman: “Give me your phone, give me your phone,” before the suspect on the bike grabbed the device.
It was then that another driver ran over the suspects, sending them flying along with their motorcycle.
On Saturday, two suspects stole a woman’s cell phone in Guayaquil, Ecuador. As they were about to escape, a good Samaritan crashed his vehicle into the attackers.
Two robbery suspects are thrown from their motorcycle when a good Samaritan rushed to help a woman after she was forced to hand over her cell phone on Saturday in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
A motorcycle used by thieves to steal a cellphone was left mangled on the ground after a good Samaritan rammed it with his vehicle twice to prevent two suspects from fleeing in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Saturday.
When one of the attackers attempted to pick up the motorcycle, the driver attacked again, hitting the motorcycle and knocking the suspect to the ground.
After the robbers fled, the driver He went back to check on the woman who was attacked.
The National Police began searching for the two suspects, who remained at large as of Tuesday.
The incident comes after Yuliano Salazar, a 22-year-old with 40 percent mental capacity, ran over four suspects and killed two after they tried to rob him on a motorcycle.
Prosecutors charged him with manslaughter and remanded him in custody.
President Daniel Noboa issued a statement in defense of Salazar and criticized the judicial system for holding the university student responsible.
A robbery suspect attempted to restart his motorcycle as his accomplice approached him moments before a good Samaritan crashed his vehicle into the motorcycle a second time and knocked the perpetrator to the ground before he and his accomplice fled in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Saturday.
A robbery suspect was knocked to the ground after trying to restart his motorcycle to flee with his accomplice after stealing a woman’s cell phone in Guayaquil, Ecuador
‘I will not be a passive witness to the indolence and incoherence of a system that prosecuted a young university student for defending his life and that of his classmates when he was attacked by four armed criminals,’ Noboa wrote in X.
According to statistics published by the Attorney General’s Office earlier this month, 182,293 criminal acts were recorded in Ecuador during the first six months of this year.
A total of 43,475 of the incidents were reported as robberies, of which 16,444 occurred in the province of Guayas, surpassing all other provinces.
A total of 10,760 robberies were reported in Guayaquil, capital of Guayas.