Watch Woman Beat The Crap Out Of Attacker At Gym

Surveillance footage from a Florida gym shows the moment a woman fought off a male attacker.

The incident occurred Jan. 22 at the Inwood Park Apartment Complex in Tampa, when deputies with the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) responded to an assault report, according to a press release from the HCSO.

Nashali Alma, 24, said she was working out alone in the gym before she let 25-year-old Xavier Thomas-Jones into the gym. She had allegedly seen him at the gym prior to the incident. While Alma was working out, Thomas-Jones walked up to her and tried to grab her waist before she turned around and yelled at him to leave her alone, according to the press release and security footage shared by the HCSO. (RELATED: LSU Sorority Girl Fatally Hit By Car After Alleged Rape, Police Say)

“As soon as he was approaching me, I pushed him,” Alma said in the video. “I said, ‘Bro, what the F are you doing? Get away from me. Stop trying to touch me.’ He started chasing me around the bench and we ended up on the other side of the gym.”

 

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Thomas-Jones then chased her around the gym, according to the footage. He can be seen grabbing Alma and throwing her down to the floor as she fights him before she ran out of the gym to a nearby apartment, according to the press release.

Authorities arrested Thomas-Jones less than a day later and charged him with sexual battery, false imprisonment and kidnapping, the HCSO wrote.

Thomas-Jones is a resident of the apartment complex and confessed he wanted to have sex with Alma, Fox13 Tampa reported, citing court documents.

Alma said her advice to someone who finds themselves in a similar situation “would be to never give up.”

“My parents always told me in life to never give up on anything, and that’s one thing I always kept in my mind when I was fighting him.”