Family Thanks Good Samaritans For Helping Elk Grove Grandmother Robbed While Walking Young Grandson

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ELK GROVE (CBS13) — An Elk Grove grandma says she was grabbed and thrown to the crushed Tuesday during a robbery portion she was walking with her young grandson.

It happened adjacent Wooded Brook Drive and West Stockton Boulevard. The grandma didn’t consciousness comfy sharing her individuality implicit concerns regarding her information but shared implicit the telephone however random the onslaught was.

“No reason, that’s the mode I saw it for this idiosyncratic to travel aft me,” she said. “I don’t adjacent cognize him, thing astatine all, you know.”

She was with her 3-year-old grandson, Cruz, who has peculiar needs, erstwhile she felt idiosyncratic getting a small excessively close. She turned astir and earlier she could react, she says she was grabbed.

“[He] picked maine up and threw maine down, past the babe stroller. The babe car flipped to the side, the babe started crying,” she described.

Monica Jimenez is Cruz’s mom.

“He was truly distressed yesterday, and I deliberation conscionable [because of] the chaos,” Jimenez said.

Police person identified the antheral accused of the onslaught arsenic Drakkar Jenkins, 29.

CBS13 has learned Jenkins has a past of theft and burglary.

In 2019, helium was charged with theft and sentenced to probation. That aforesaid year, helium was accused of burglary and being successful possession of a limb successful a schoolhouse portion — but some cases were dismissed.

And conscionable 1 time earlier allegedly attacking the Elk Grove grandmother, helium was charged with burglary. We reached retired to the tribunal to find retired much astir that lawsuit but person not heard back.

Police were capable to apprehension Jenkins with the assistance of 2 bully Samaritans: The archetypal called 911 and the 2nd spotted Jenkins jumping implicit a guardrail adjacent Highway 99 and Sheldon Road.

Jimenez is grateful for their actions.

“Thank you, truthful much. I truly admit it. We ne'er cognize erstwhile we are going to request the assistance of 1 of our chap assemblage members,” she said.

And arsenic for her mom, Jimenez is hopeful she’ll locomotion successful the country again, though grandma feels it’s excessively soon.

“No I wouldn’t consciousness harmless anymore due to the fact that present that’s similar successful the backmost of my mind,” she said.

Both grandma and grandson are OK.

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Jenkins faces respective charges including robbery and violating probation.