The An family, who own and operate a dojo in Harris County, used their years of training and discipline to pin down an attacker until law enforcement arrivedThe piercing scream, like a sound from a horror film, triggered taekwondo instructor Simon An to draw on his years of martial arts training.
His family ran to the store and opened a door that had been shut. There they found a man on top of a young woman with his hands “in appropriate places” as she attempted to fend him off, An said. “It just happened so sudden,” said An, who has been practicing taekwondo for 16 years. “It was all self defense. The intruder was trying to run away — scratching, biting, anything he could do.”
The Harris County Sheriff’s Department has credited An and his family with saving the young woman from an attempted sexual assault.