Thursday, September 29, 2011

Marine’s scream halts rape in New York

Marine’s scream halts rape
By JOE MOLLICA and CYNTHIA R. FAGEN
September 29, 2011

A Marine vet who served five years in Iraq and Afghanistan saved a woman from a would-be rapist in Queens yesterday morning -- scaring him off with a jarhead scream.

Brian Teichman was dropping off his 2-year-old daughter at her babysitter near the Cross Island Parkway and 148th Street in Whitestone at around 9 a.m. when he spotted the hulking man force his victim over a guardrail and into a deserted, wooded area.

“It was 100 percent instinct as a Marine that the situation didn’t look right,” said Teichman. “I looked down and I saw him straddling her and he had his hand over her mouth and he was trying to rip her shirt off.

“My thought was scream first. If he runs, you don’t need to worry if he has a gun or a knife.
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