DEER PARK, Texas (KTRK) -- A Good Samaritan says he learned a scary lesson about the cost of helping strangers after he was carjacked by a woman he was trying to help.

James Sparkman said he was driving back from a doctor's appointment Tuesday afternoon when he saw a weeping woman walking down Glenwood Avenue in Deer Park.

"I said, 'What's wrong?' She said, 'My boyfriend just beat me up,' and she looked like she'd been really torn up pretty bad," Sparkman said.

Sparkman said he agreed to give her a ride home, but said those plans changed almost immediately.

"We got down the road, she says, 'Over there's a park. They got a port a can. I really need to go to the bathroom,'" Sparkman said.

He said he let the woman out at the Burgess Recreation Center.

After she returned from the bathro

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