Theresa Mackas was departing a Chevron station on Franklin Gateway in Marietta, Georgia, on Monday night when a male appeared, asked Mackas for a ride, and then bashed her with part of a metal bed frame, WAGA-TV reported .

Investigators noted to the station that surveillance video and witness statements indicated that the male in question had been pacing near Mackas' unoccupied Chevrolet Aveo parked at the station — and then he saw his opportunity when she tried to enter her car.

'It’s what we do — help. We were running through people that were just standing around in a parking lot.'

"I was just, 'Help! Help!'" Mackas later told the station. "He and I were wrestling, and we fell to the concrete. I was screaming as loud as I could, but nobody around the gas station came."

After about

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