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  The Defender"Hey, baby," a man shouted. "You want a boyfriend?" Kelly Capitani, a York, Pennsylvania, court stenographer on her lunch break, ignored him. But suddenly, he grabbed her in a headlock and dragged her onto a side street. "I thought he was going to rape me," says Kelly. She fought to get away, but he punched her and then pushed her up against a brick wall. All around her, windows slammed shut. Ron Gross, a 31-year-old criminal defense attorney, was driving back his office after a hearing. He jumped out of his car and started shouting. Startled, the man whipped around, releasing Kelly. Then he pulled out gun. "You want to die?" he sneered, pushing Ron to the ground and whacking him on the side of the head. Ron jumped up and bellowed at a bystander to call 911 as the gunman escaped, only to be confronted by the police farther down the block. Then Ron went to give Kelly, badly shaken and crying uncontrollably, a hug—"a really tight hug." |
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