DETROIT – A woman was attacked and carjacked Friday morning on Detroit's west side by a man who was hiding in the bushes near her truck.

Police said the attack happened around 5 a.m. Friday on Rutherford Street. Even though the man got away with her car and belongings, the woman said she put up a fight.

"I'm hollering," she said. "I'm screaming, but nobody heard me."

She said the man ruined her rare night out when he approached her from behind the bushes.

"I looked to my left and the guy came straight to me and hit me in the face," she said.

At the time, she didn't know he was unarmed.

"I don't want to be stabbed," she said. "I don't want to be shot. I don't want to be any of that. I have kids to live for."

She fought as hard as she could to show him she's not weak.

"You came to a woman that's independent, that strives to what she has and struggled all her life and is not willing to give up anything," she said.

He got away with her truck, house keys, cellphone and money. She was left with scratches and bruises.

"If I had a pistol on me, I'd have shot him," she said."You try to do what's right and ... you got these thieves coming in trying to take what you've built for you and your family."

She said the carjacker didn't take away her strength, and she wants him to know that.

"You took from somebody that does good and takes care of their family because you don't have that within yourself to do the same for yours, so all you can do is take from the next," she said. "But you can't do that. Only thing that will get you is locked up or killed, and that's not the life you should want for yourself."

The woman was able to give only a vague description of the man because it was dark outside and he was wearing black clothing.

Anyone with information is asked to call police.