This is the moment a Good Samaritan crashed his pickup truck into a motorcyclist and ran him over to stop him from robbing a nurse in broad daylight in Brazil.
Surveillance footage showed the suspect searching the woman’s cell phone with a weapon on a sidewalk in the southeastern city of Uberlândia on Tuesday morning.
Luciano Campbell drove by and saw the woman put her hands on her face in disbelief, drove back within 10 seconds and stopped to question the suspect.
The perpetrator could be seen lifting up his sweatshirt to show off the gun on his waistband.
Luciano Campbell, a resident of the city of Uberlândia in southeastern Brazil, drove his pickup into a man on a scooter Tuesday morning to prevent him from robbing a nurse
Luciano Campbell (seen next to the pickup) told Brazilian news channel G1 that he pretended to leave the scene and thought his wife might be the victim of a crime when he put his vehicle in reverse and crashed into the armed suspect and stopped him from robbing the nurse who lives in his neighborhood
The suspect pulled out his gun after being knocked off his scooter after trying to flee with the nurse’s cell phone, but never fired a shot
Campbell immediately drove away and the attacker then grabbed the woman’s cell phone from her hands.
He was about to escape when Campbell accelerated backwards, plowing into him and knocking him to the ground.
“We must have courage and love for others. We have been through a pandemic and it seems no one has learned to have empathy,” Campbell told the Brazilian press G1. ‘You can’t go through situations like this and do nothing. It could be someone from my family.’
After falling to the ground, the thief grabbed his gun and began yelling at Campbell, who drove away without any shots being fired.
“I got out of the truck to stop him, but from a distance I saw that the gun was real and I ended up going back to the car,” he said.
The suspect fled the scene and remained on the run as of Thursday.
The armed suspect sat on his scooter and eventually showed the pickup driver that he was carrying a gun on Tuesday, as the nurse waited nervously on a sidewalk in Uberlândia, Brazil. The suspect was later run over the driver and fled the scene. He remains on the run
The nurse looked away as the pickup driver rushed to her aid and crashed into the armed suspect and his scooter
The woman, returning from work, was able to find her phone and was treated at an area hospital for an unknown injury and released.
Marcos Tadeu, head of Uberlândia’s civil police, told the newspaper that Campbell was being investigated for running over the motorcyclist, but that he could be acquitted of all charges if it turns out he acted to defend the woman.
Campbell said he lives in the same neighborhood as the woman and was thinking of his wife when he took action.
“At the time I thought it was something that could happen to my wife because she had just left for the gym,” he said.
‘The girl was very nervous. When I asked her if everything was okay, she couldn’t even respond.”
