A California moms instincts kicked in after an intruder rushed into her friend’s garage while her two daughters were playing. Surveillance video that was uploaded to Reddit’s r/PublicFreakout, shows the garage was wide open as two young girls played with each other. The mother is sitting near by as she is heard telling the little girl to “Stay right here.”
Shortly after, a man is seen running into the garage. Mom quickly yells and tackles the man while the children run seemingly inside the house. Luckily, her husband pulls into the driveway and attacks the man. The woman is heard in the video yelling, “get away from my kids.”
The mother admitted in an interview with KCAL9, that she was frightened the man was attempting to take her daughters. She said, “I saw him coming into the driveway, and my first instinct was just to block him to give my kids enough time to get away.”
She went on to say that the stranger pulled the same stunt moments before, and her husband and friend went out searching for him.
The man has been identified as Peter Rasmussen, 31. Officials say they haven't learned Rasmussen’s motive behind the encounter; however, police do believe he was under the influence of a controlled substance of some sort.