Sierra Ruggiero was 10 minutes from her home in the Loop on Wednesday night when a man on a bicycle pushed her onto a busy street and tried to sexually assault her.

Around 7:20 p.m., she left the La Salle Blue Line station and was walking west on Ida B. Wells Drive, through the underpass before Financial Place, when the man pushed her over a short railing and into traffic, according to Ruggiero and a Chicago police report.

As the man tried to sexually assault her, Alx Taylor witnessed the attack. Taylor immediately yelled at the man to stop. He got on his bike and fled west.

“Once he ran away, she came up to me, she checked to see if I was OK. She was the kindest soul,” Ruggiero, 25, said of the 21-year-old good Samaritan, adding that Taylor stayed with Ruggiero at the scene as paramedi

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