It was a regular day of shopping for Mark Maloy and his family at the South County Center in St. Louis, Missouri, until he had to become a hero to save a teenage girl's life.
Mark and his family were near an escalator at the mall when two young girls caught his attention. They were holding onto the outside of the escalator by the moving handrail and drop off once they gained a little height.
In the video below posted on February 16, 2017, Mark explains, "They'd wait for about three or four feet and then they'd fall off."
However, one of the girls didn't let go in time and clung onto the outside of the escalator as it lifted her up to the next floor. Once she reached the top, she couldn't hold on any longer and was forced to fall from the second story down to the ground.
Thankfully, she didn't have a chance to hit the floor.
Mark saw her at the top of the escalator and bolted into action.
"I didn't even think. Like, a switch flipped and I just ran," he says. The father of two rushed to a spot right beneath the teenage girl and prepared himself to catch her and break her fall. In an instant, she plummeted right into Mark's arms.
Although the two girls left before Mark had a chance to learn their names, Alexis Dixon has now come forward to publicly thank him and call him a hero. The truth is that if Mark hadn't been there, who knows what would have happened?
What Mark did was astounding, but he feels it was just normal behavior. "It's natural for us to care for each other. It's natural for us to know that helping someone in need, especially a child, is a good thing to do."
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