Woman thwarts attempted carjacking

WORCESTER (CBS) – A Connecticut antheral is nether apprehension — and a young Worcester pistillate is blessed she wasn’t severely wounded — aft an attempted carjacking implicit the weekend.

It was 2 o’clock Saturday greeting erstwhile a 24-year-old nursing adjunct named Julitssa (she asked to usage lone her archetypal name) was making her mode location from a friend’s location — erstwhile her bully deed turned into a convulsive struggle.

She was driving connected Park Avenue successful Worcester erstwhile she saw a car veer disconnected the roadworthy and deed a rod and made the determination to halt and help.

Police accidental the injured operator was 40-year-old William Vasbinder — and things rapidly went sour.

“It was benignant of combat oregon flight,” says Julitssa. “And I fought.”

What Julitssa didn’t know, was that the wrecked car was stolen.

And so, arsenic she stood adjacent calling 911, she said Vasbinder tried to bargain her moving Nissan Rogue, arsenic she jumped backmost successful to thwart him.

“At archetypal I spot him,” she says, “and I deliberation that startled him into benignant of stopping the car. Then I enactment him successful a headlock to thrust him retired of the car.”

Surveillance video from a car lavation shows the Nissan lurch guardant but travel to a speedy halt arsenic the brace tussle for power of the SUV.

“But his ft was connected the gas,” Julitssa says, “so my adjacent measurement was to unopen disconnected the ignition.”

Julitssa says she might’ve blacked retired for a infinitesimal oregon 2 — adjacent arsenic she second-guessed her determination to beryllium a Good Samaritan. “I virtually saw you alert into a pole,” she says. “I got disquieted for you — tried to help. In return, you tried to bargain my car and tried to bushed maine up.”

Julitssa says the conflict seemed similar everlastingly — adjacent though it was little than 45 seconds — until Vasbinder climbed retired and ran and responding constabulary arrested him a fewer blocks away.

He’s facing respective charges — including carjacking and assault. He was arraigned Tuesday and ordered held without bail until a dangerousness proceeding connected November 23.

“It was scary,” she says. “Very scary.”

Julitssa works with recovering addicts and says drugs and needles fell retired of the suspect’s pockets into her SUV during the struggle.

“If you privation to ruin your beingness past ruin your ain life,” she says. “But don’t resistance different radical along.”

Julitssa is wearing a disguise — and taking a mates of days disconnected from enactment — due to the fact that constabulary told her the fishy has Covid — and she’s present waiting for her trial results.