University of Florida football player Cristian Garcia saved teen from rape behind bar dumpster
"He was intoxicated and attempted to throw some punches, but he slipped and busted his face on the wall.”
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A heroic University of Florida football player helped save an incapacitated teen from an alleged sexual assault behind a bar’s dumpster, a rescue that may have led cops to a serial sex offender.
Cristian Garcia, a linebacker for the UF football team, witnessed the alleged attack about 2 a.m. Thursday when he was taking out the trash at the Gainesville, Fla., bar 101 Cantina, where he works security.
At first glance, he believed the 19-year-old victim and the suspect, Christopher Lee Shaw, were having consensual sex as they were pressed up against the dumpster, but then realized the woman was incoherently drunk.
“The girl was basically unconscious, so I knew there was no way she could be giving consent,” Garcia told First Coast News.
Garcia, along with another man, then pulled Shaw, 34, away from the teenage victim.
“I turned around and pulled the guy by the shoulder and said, ‘Get off.’ That pretty much ended the situation then. He was intoxicated and attempted to throw some punches, but he slipped and busted his face on the wall,” he told GatorSports.com.
Cristian Garcia, a linebacker for the UF football team, witnessed the alleged attack about 2 a.m. Thursday when he was taking out the trash at the Gainesville, Fla., bar 101 Cantina, where he works security.
At first glance, he believed the 19-year-old victim and the suspect, Christopher Lee Shaw, were having consensual sex as they were pressed up against the dumpster, but then realized the woman was incoherently drunk.
“The girl was basically unconscious, so I knew there was no way she could be giving consent,” Garcia told First Coast News.
Garcia, along with another man, then pulled Shaw, 34, away from the teenage victim.
“I turned around and pulled the guy by the shoulder and said, ‘Get off.’ That pretty much ended the situation then. He was intoxicated and attempted to throw some punches, but he slipped and busted his face on the wall,” he told GatorSports.com.
"He was intoxicated and attempted to throw some punches, but he slipped and busted his face on the wall.”
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