The 50-year-old victim was getting out of the bathroom at a Walgreens on White Plains Road just before 3:45 p.m. Thursday when police said the suspect pushed her back inside.
He knocked her to the ground, covered her mouth and tried to take off her pants, according to police.
The worker heard the victim screaming for help and pulled the suspect off of her, police said.
“I was shocked because it could have been me right, could have been anybody,” Sheneca Nelson told CBS2’s Jessica Layton.
“That’s incredible, it happened here in Walgreens in the middle of the day — just shows how sometimes unsafe we are,” Randy Kearse added.
Thankfully a store manager heard the screams as the suspect tried to pull down the victim’s pants.
Walgreens wouldn’t answer CBS2’s questions, or allow an interview with the courageous employee, but customers couldn’t stop singing his praises. »