Teenagers who stop at a traffic signal see a girl staring at them for an unbelievable reason. Sometimes when you drive around town and stop at a red light, you look around at other people in their cars. Two young men from Texas were going to pick up a friend from work when a woman in a car next to them caught their attention. She was pretty and Aaron Arius, 19, and Jamal Harris, 17, were both checking her out. Little did they know that this pretty lady was in trouble. If these two young men didn’t trust their gut feeling about what they saw, this story would have had a tragic end.
Let’s hear their side of this story. It is really unbelievable how one look can save a person’s life. Also, if you have not done so already, please subscribe to our channel and click that notification bell to get inspired by these real-life stories every day. Now back to the story. These young heroes don’t wear capes, but they did save a woman’s life a few years ago, and everyone was thankful that they got so involved in saving her. It’s not exaggerated to say they’re heroes. In an interview with the media, one of them said, “We felt like we were in an action movie.”
Here’s how it all started. Aaron and Jamal were in the car with Aaron driving to pick up a friend from work when they stopped at a red light near downtown Dallas. They noticed a beautiful girl in the back seat of the car that was next to them. Then Jamal looked a little longer and noticed a shocking detail. About to turn and then Jamal noticed that guy in that lane right there. In an interview with NBC, NBCDFW, Aaron said how it all happened, “We were checking out the girl in the back seat because we’re like okay she’s kind of attractive and then the guy that was driving looked back at them.” Something was a bit odd so Jamal kept on looking, then he sees what the woman tried to communicate. Jamal explained that the woman made eye contact with him and her face was trying to tell them something.
Then he did his best to read her lips, she was actually mouthing, “Help me.” He told his friend, but Aaron thought that Jamal was kidding around. He was like, “She’s mouthing help me.” I was like, “Stop playing.” “We finally made eye contact and I could see like the serious expression on her face and I could read her lips and she was saying help me.” When Aaron looked towards her, he realized it wasn’t a game; she was really in trouble. The two called 9-1-1 and here’s the entire conversation with the operator. As the young men kept on following the car with the supposed victim, they had no idea how dangerous the other driver was. Aaron explained to the operator that they’re witnessing someone who looks to be in trouble. “Yes, I’m on the highway, I’m witnessing robbery, of not a robbery, a kidnapping.”
Then he explains how they were checking out the girl in the back seat and how she asked them to help her. “He looked to the back seat and the blonde female in the back seat was saying help me or something whispering it,” added Aaron as he and Jamal kept following the car on Highway 175 telling the operator where they were. “Me and another guys that were checking out the girl in the backseat because okay she’s kind of attractive then all of a sudden you know the guys turned back looking at, he looked to the back seat and the uh blonde female on the back she was saying healthy or something whispering it so I am assuming it is kidnapping.” Then the driver realized a car was following him and tried to lose it.
“He was driving crazy, swerving and everything,” said Aaron in the interview, adding that at one point the driver started turning on and off his lights so we knew that he knew he was being followed. They moved around a lot and then sometimes they would go really really fast to where we can barely see them and then we’d catch up and they would go super slow. Then Jamal explained that the police operator told them to turn on the hazard lights so that the nearest patrol car could spot them and intervene as quickly as possible. In the conversation with the 9-1-1 operator, Arya said that the driver obviously knows he’s being followed so he’s either going to hurt her or try to cut his losses or he’s going to try to hurt all of us. “How did you know that she was saying help me?” “You could read her lips?” “Yeah, we could read her lip and then while they’re driving off she’s just like hitting that back windshield and we could see her hand and she looked frantic.
