I want to share with you all what happened, but this is also for me to get it out writing it down. My councelor told me that this would be a good thing to do (write it out).
This last Monday, ya, it has taken me this long to get it out, but I was in Hayward, CA and came out of a Peet's Coffee after studying for about 2 hrs and put my backpack in the trunk of the car and turned the corner to get in to my car when a man that was crouched my my drivers door jumped at me. It starteled me, but I did not expect what happened next. The man simply said, "I want you to take out all the cash in your pockets and give it to me and if you do not, I will shoot you and kill you!" At this time, he pulled out a black gun and pushed it to my stomach. I immediatly reached in my pocket and got the $26 that I had and gave it to him. He then asked what was in the bag that I was holding in my hands, and I told him, "Just books" (Bible and Hebrew Prophets Book, and a Timeline of hebrew prophets). He did not believe me, so he took it. Then he said, I want you to get in your car and stay there or I will shoot you and kill you if I see you get out!" All I had going through my mind was a picture of Amy and I said, "Ok, Ok, just don't shoot me!!" I unlocked my car and started to move past him to get in the car (It was narrow between him and I because a car was parked close). As I moved past him, he was now behind me, the man decided to punch me as hard as he could in the right side of my neck and it threw me into my car door that was now open... I cannot express that fear that went through me even now thinking about it, but I honestly thought to myself, that if this man at 4 pm in public is hitting me this hard, he is not going to stop, this is it!!! I really thought he was going to kill me! So I threw my body in the car and slammed the door thinking he was still right there, but in the corner of my eye I saw him jumping a fince about 20-30 feet away and I started to sob and put my head back and said outloud, "Thank you God for sparing my life!!!!!" I kept looking ahead and dilled 911 and hooked my phone up to my AVX in my car so that I could just speak and hear the opperator through my speakers... In 10 min, there were 6 cop cars swarming the area and well, long story short the cops came to me and I was shaking when I got out of the car and they asked where he went again, so I pointed where, and well, they never caught him. They are assuming that he jumped on BART and took off.
This has been a week of emotional pain and reflection and it is now 4 days later, and I am still really hurting (physically and emotionally).
Please keep me in your prayers.
Thanks,
Joel
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