Watch: Good Samartian Spots Man Attacking Elderly Woman And Takes Him Down Hard

A Navy veteran and a group of 10 people stopped an attack on a 76-year-old woman outside of a grocery store in Florida.

Navy veteran Kendrick Taylor chased the suspect down and stopped him from getting away, WGHP reports.

“What if that was my grandmother?” Taylor said.

Taylor explained that he was on his way to the gym when he saw 76-year-old Rosemary Carelton being attacked.

“She was screaming for help that’s when I went over to help her,” he said.

Taylor ran straight at him.

“When I looked down, I didn’t know if he had a knife or a gun. But I just saw the lady,” he said. “She was so old. And when he threw her down, she was so fragile and I knew she needed help.”

The suspect quickly ran away from Taylor and two other good samaritans.

A surveillance camera caught the incident on tape.

“When I finally got my hands on him, I just apprehended him, and I told some local people to call the police, and they got here and I kept him down,” he said.

The suspect, identified as 23-year-old John Desjardin, is already on probation  and now he’s charged with attempted robbery and battery on a person over 65.

“He definitely should face some type of jail time. He has to know what he did was very wrong,” Taylor said.

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