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When Simon Ang and his family heard screams coming from the store next door to his family's taekwondo studio in suburban Houston, Texas, on Wednesday, they knew they had to go and see what was going on.
Ang, 20, and his family, all of whom train in martial arts, immediately went to a neighboring house, where they found a man attempting to sexually assault a woman, and managed to grab the suspect and hold him down until police arrived, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said in a post on X.
Ahn told CNN on Friday that the family was returning from their lunch break and parking at Yongin Studios in Katy when she heard a “loud scream” as her father got out of the car. Then the whole family heard a “second scream.” “It was a very loud scream,” she said. “I think it was a terrifying scream.”
Ann's father took the family into a nearby Cricket Wireless store. When he opened the door, he heard more screaming and ran into a back office, where he found “a man on top of a woman with his hand over her mouth,” Ann said.
CNN has reached out to Cricket Wireless for comment.
“Our first impulse was to save the girl,” Ann said. “We didn't know what he was going to do to her.”
“My father pulled him away and pushed him against the corner of the building,” Ann explained.
Anne added that her father suffered scratches and bites during the scuffle but was completely “fine.”
According to court documents obtained by CNN affiliate KHOU, Alex Robinson, 19, has been charged with attempted sexual assault in connection to the incident. Robinson is accused of taking the victim to another location, “choking her to cause bodily harm,” “groping her breasts,” and ordering her to remove her clothes.
Robinson's bail was set at $100,000. CNN has reached out to his attorney for comment.
In an interview with KHOU, Ann's sister, 22-year-old Hannah Ann, said she and her mother took the alleged victim to the training center “to make sure she was OK after what she went through.”
Their father, Han An, told KHOU he's grateful to have been in the right place at the right time and is looking forward to returning to class.
“My life is taekwondo,” he said. “I'm very proud of my family.”
The Harris County Sheriff praised the Ang family as “good Samaritans” and thanked them for their “quick action to protect others.”
