BLACK-ON-WHITE CRIME: Woman's screams may have saved her life after she was tackled, strangled inside Pelham Bay Park

ELHAM BAY PARK, the Bronx (WABC) -- A woman's screams may have saved her life after she was tackled and strangled by a man in the Bronx before a bicyclist heard her yelling and intervened. It happened around 3:30 p.m. on June 23 near City Island and Shore roads in Pelham Bay Park, where the victim, 31-year-old Rebecca Young, was walking.

"I felt someone running behind me," she said. "I just felt a presence." According to police, the man ran up behind her, covered her nose and mouth, and dragged her into a wooded area. At first, she thought he wanted to steal her phone -- until he forced her off the path.