CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago police are searching for a man who violently attacked a woman on the city's West Side.
The incident happened just after 1 a.m. Friday morning while the victim was in her car at the Marathon gas station in the 300 block of South Sacramento Avenue in Garfield Park, police said.
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The victim, Tara Banks, said she had to fight for her life against the attacker.
Police said the offender got into her car armed with a knife and told her to drive away. He then punched and choked Banks before a security guard intervened and fought with the man.
Banks said she is okay now, but is traumatized from what she went through.
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Police said the offender ran away from the scene.
No arrests have been made at this time.
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