Lenora Dennis is a modern-day Good Samaritan.
She helped a couple, Devante Johnson and Ashley Knutson, who were brutally attacked by a mob of violent teens in downtown Chicago while they were shopping.
“She saved us,” Johnson, who suffered multiple injuries to his body and face, told NBC 5 Chicago.
Dennis feared the couple was going to die in what she described as a “war scene.”
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“I felt like if I did not intervene, that young man would have gotten killed right there,” she told Fox News. “It was just something that I had to do because I couldn’t accept that.”
The couple had their phones, shoes, and Apple Watch stolen — but it could’ve been worse if the Good Samaritan hadn’t stepped in.
“They said they were going to kill us,” Knutson told Fox 32. “They turned around and started fighting. I got pushed down to the ground and the whole group went to DJ and not to me.”
“I tried to stop a police car,” Dennis told ABC 7, but the police “just kept going.”
And just like the Good Samaritan in the Bible, the couple said Dennis “ran up to the mob of people screaming for them to stop the attack and eventually pulled them out of the crowd and gave them shoes and money before driving them to the police station,” the outlet reports.
She told Fox 32 her daily mantra is, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” words spoken by Jesus in Luke just a few chapters before the story of the Good Samaritan.
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“My assignments are rarely as clear as this one,” Dennis wrote on Instagram with an image embracing the couple. “Maybe that was by design…I’ve introduced these two to my family, and they know now they’re a part of mine. Happy Sunday, everyone…be the change you want to see.”
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