It happened Monday as she was leaving work. She was walking through the parking garage and she saw someone kind of hanging around. As she walked past him he came up grabbed her by the waist and jammed a screwdriver into her back. He told her to go to her car and she complied. On the way there she told him he could have her purse and he said he didn't want her purse. He didn't know it, but she was taking him to her car. She led him to the bottom floor thinking the security office was there. When she got to the bottom floor she realized the office wasn't down there. She started walking towards a car, reached in her purse for her "keys" and grabbed the pepper spray (the one I gave my wife, who gave it to her) and aimed it back in towards his face and let him have it. She heard him cough and start to weeze. She turned around and he was holding his face at which point she hauled off and kicked him square in the nuts. She then dropped everything and took off running and eventually found the security office. They called the police and then recovered all of her belongings.
My wife talked to her last night and she is still very shook up over the whole thing. Her employer is being less than cooperative. The did let her park out front yesterday, but aren't stepping up as far as increasing security or offering escorts. The security guard even went as far as to chastise and reprimand her for having the pepper spray on the grounds because it's against company policy (along w/ firearms). The investigating officer involved basically told the security guard to get bent. The police station is right across the street from her employer so the officer has given her permission to park there from now on.
She is very confused about the whole thing. Even going as far as second guessing her judgment. She thinks she did the wrong thing by defending herself and feels she put herself at more risk by doing so. I guess she still thinks he just wanted her car. As I told my wife, she's better being in this situation then the alternative of being in a hospital after being brutally raped and beaten.
So far no perp has been caught. She has gone through tons of mugshots w/ the police, but hasn't been able to identify anyone yet.
My wife talked to her last night and she is still very shook up over the whole thing. Her employer is being less than cooperative. The did let her park out front yesterday, but aren't stepping up as far as increasing security or offering escorts. The security guard even went as far as to chastise and reprimand her for having the pepper spray on the grounds because it's against company policy (along w/ firearms). The investigating officer involved basically told the security guard to get bent. The police station is right across the street from her employer so the officer has given her permission to park there from now on.
She is very confused about the whole thing. Even going as far as second guessing her judgment. She thinks she did the wrong thing by defending herself and feels she put herself at more risk by doing so. I guess she still thinks he just wanted her car. As I told my wife, she's better being in this situation then the alternative of being in a hospital after being brutally raped and beaten.
So far no perp has been caught. She has gone through tons of mugshots w/ the police, but hasn't been able to identify anyone yet.
