U.S. Marine veteran Michael Adams stopped an attack on a woman who was jogging on the Lakefront Bike Path when he saw a young man assaulting her. (Credit: CBS)

Updated 02/14/13 – 10:02 a.m.

CHICAGO (CBS) — A Marine veteran came to the aid of a woman who was being assaulted on the Lakefront Bike Path on Wednesday.

CBS 2’s Susanna Song reports 24-year-old Michael Adams, an East Side resident, was driving south on Lake Shore Drive near 63rd Street Wednesday afternoon, when he saw a young man apparently trying to rape a woman along the lakefront.

He said he thought it was odd when he saw the woman running in typical jogging gear, and a man running right behind her in jeans.