Christine King is being hailed a hero after she stepped in to save a baby being held over a freeway overpass in Philadelphia.
With her heart still racing with terror and adrenaline, a woman narrates how she halted a man who wanted to throw his baby girl off of an overpass in Northeast Philadelphia on Thursday afternoon.
Christine King said she was driving along the interstate when she witnessed the man arguing with the mother of the child.
“Then I saw that the man grabbed the baby and tried to throw her over the bridge,” King said. “That’s when I hit the brakes on my car and went out to stop him.”
King added that when she parked her car in the middle of I-95, at the height of Cottman Avenue, she began to shout, “let go of the boy, please,” but the man pushed her and threatened to shoot her.
“The police then came and pointed their guns at him, but he didn’t want to let the baby go,” King added.
After some minutes of struggling and yelling, King explained that the mother managed to take the gun from her spouse. And after a brief standoff with police, the man released the baby and was taken into custody.
Even though Pennsylvania State Police have not yet released information about the incident, King alleges that it all started when the mother attempted to terminate the relationship with her spouse.
Raheem is being held on $1.5 million bail and must go through a mental fitness evaluation.
