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Hero Stops Carjacking of Woman and Baby!
By: Vanessa Ho |
| Eddie Anderson was stocking hair-coloring kits on the
shelves at Kmart, doing what he called "real monotonous, real brainless
work." But when a woman screamed, his brain kicked into high gear
and Anderson transformed in a hero. He saved a woman and her 4-month-old from a carjacker this week, prompting the woman to call Anderson a good Samaritan. "If Eddie hadn't been there, I don't know what would have happened," Kelly Granard said yesterday. She and her family want to officially thank Anderson with a plaque next week. "Its like he was my angel. I didn't see him coming, and I never saw him leaving," she said. On Wednesday, Anderson was helping his mother, a sales representative, stock products at the kmart at 13200 Aurora Ave. N. A man walked in and grabbed some checks and a $10 bill from a register, prompting the cashier to shriek, "He's got my money!" according to Anderson and a police report. Anderson and a security employee chased the man, who ran up a small hill, picked up a large rock and threatened to throw it. "At that point, I was like, time out," Anderson said. The security employee - who feared for his safety," according to the report - stopped to call police and told Anderson, "you keep following him."Meanwhile, Granard was getting ready to shop at the nearby Sams Club with her daughter, Emily. The man opened her truck door, yanked Granard out an leapt behind the steering wheel. "My baby!" Granard yelled in horror. "Let me get my baby out of the car!" She saw Anderson running toward her and panicked, thinking he, too, was a carjacker. But Anderson, a 6-foot-1-inch, 250 pound former college football tight end, tackled the man and held him until police arrived. Anderson was modest about his heroic actions yesterday. "To me, I don't think I was anything extra special. I was just glad to help," he said. "It didn't really seem like that big a deal at the time." After police arrived, Granard said Anderson smiled at her, gave her a thumbs-up and disappeared before she gad a chance to talk to him much. The suspect, a 25-year-old Everett man, remained in fail yesterday on $20,000 bail for investigation of kidnapping, robbery and auto theft. Prosecutors expect to charge him Monday. |
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