A woman was rescued by a co-worker after she was held at knifepoint by a masked man outside a hardware supply on on Friday evening, Redding police said.
Judith Schmidt, 19, was heading to her car in the store's parking lot after work when an unidentified man grabbed her, held a knife to her throat and forced her into the passenger seat, she said Saturday. Co-worker Theodore Lidgett, 59, had just gotten into his car, which was parked beside Schmidt's, when he saw the assault taking place about 9:20 p.m.
"I heard her scream and when I looked over, I saw a flash of light on the knife," Lidgett said.
Despite the assailant's warning to "get the bleep out of here," Lidgett pulled Schmidt out the passenger-side door. The man then came after Lidgett, who slammed him with the car door a few times.
"I was trying to keep that knife away," Lidgett said. "It was about 9 inches long."
Schmidt suffered a cut to her lower left leg. Lidgett was not injured.
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