A Good Samaritan who describes himself as a “cowboy” living in San Francisco’s Chinatown is being heralded as a hero after he stepped in to set an elderly man who used to be being attacked in the location.
“I gaze a in fact young guy beating up a in fact worn man in the center of the street and a bunch of parents looking out at,” self-described cowboy, 24-year-worn Darren Tag Stallcup, told NBC Bay House on Thursday.
The attack unfolded on Wednesday in Chinatown. Stallcup acknowledged he rushed out of his dwelling after he heard americans screaming on the streets.
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The attacker at the starting up fled the scene as americans tried to again the elderly man, who’s Asian, in accordance with NBC’s Robert Handa.
“Before I could possibly well even pull out my phone, the actual person came motivate spherical a second time. This time in a corpulent depart with the craziest glimpse in his eye,” he acknowledged. “I be conscious screaming at him at some stage in the battle. Whereas I was undergo-hugging him, I was yelling at him. I was telling him that the worn man he used to be attacking used to be in fact his brother and that ‘fancy used to be the answer.'”
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The attacker reportedly did no longer solution Stallcup, who then struggled with the attacker till police arrived.
San Francisco police told Fox News later Friday that Yuefeng Li, a 44-year-worn male from San Francisco, used to be taken into custody and booked for threats, assault at possibility of result in enormous bodily injury and for drawing or exhibiting a lethal weapon.
“I was merely doing what any correct man would attain. And confidently, if any of you seen somebody attacking an elderly particular person, that you should possibly well well strive to attain something to pause them,” Stallcup added.
