A grandmother who was brutally attacked by a man who stole her car and later died when he crashed it has said “the Lord saw fit to take him out of his misery”.
The man slammed Shirlene Hernandez, 72, in the face with her car door when she stopped at a petrol station in San Antonio, Texas, in the US, on her way to work.
As a result of the violence earlier this month her face was severely bruised.
Despite best efforts from three witnesses to save Hernandez the man drove off in her car.
Police said it was later involved in a fatal collision on the nearby road and the driver died.
“There's a lot of people who would say what goes around comes around, karma. I did not think that," Ms Hernandez told local news station WCAX3.
"The only thing I got [was] really sad because he had died. Now granted... he had hurt me, but the Lord saw fit to take him out of his misery."
Hernandez said she was grateful for the people that had tried to help her at the petrol station and added: "I just hope that if this situation happens to anybody else, that somebody will step forward, leap forward, run forward, whatever and help the person that it's happening to," she told WOAI.
Hernandez is now on the lookout for a new car so she can continue driving to work each day.
She said: "I just don't want to quit working, and so I've got to somehow get another car. And that takes money and stuff, so I've got to figure out what to do."
Her granddaughter Helen Garcia has organised a fundraising campaign to buy Shirlene a new car.
Garcia has set a $5,000 (about £3,800) goal for the campaign but it has already reached an amazing $30,000 (which is over £22,000).
She wrote on the GoFundMe page: “The man wrecked her car and totaled it, leaving her without a way to get to work or appointments.
"We are in awe and so thankful for the outpouring of love and support. I don't know how to properly say thank you to everyone".
