Angie was driving to her job Wednesday morning when something caught her eye in Woodland Hills.

The high school history teacher noticed a teen girl walking north on Winnetka Avenue near Oxnard Street toward Pierce College — with a man walking quickly behind her.

Angie then saw him grab the girl’s shoulder, and the girl shake him off.

Angie, who was traveling in the same direction, started to make a u-turn to assess the situation.

“I kept looking and that’s when I noticed that he tried to grab her and pull her as she fought him off,” said Angie, who asked that her last name not be published for fear of retribution.

Angie rolled down her window and shouted from across the lanes if she was alright and if she knew this man.

“She looked at me terrified, crying (and said) No!” Angie recalled.

Angie’s adrenaline kicked in. She knew this girl was “someone’s daughter, someone’s cousin, someone” who clearly needed her help.

Angie said she yelled at the man to “Leave her the f*** alone” and then made another u-turn to get closer to the girl.

“I know it wasn’t the smartest thing to do being a female, but I don’t know. Motherly instinct?” she said.

The man started to take off, Angie told the 17-year-old girl to get in her car and then made the decision to follow the suspect at a distance until police could arrive. The teen told Angie that the strange man had followed her off the bus, where he had made small talk with her before she got off at a nearby stop.

After Angie confronted the man and he ran off, he disappeared in the residential area locals know as Candy Cane Lane. Angie “waited it out,” she said, and drove around the neighborhood until he surfaced again.

“I followed him and called 911 and just kept my eye on him until I got there,” she said. “He didn’t know where to go. He was on foot.”

Angie said they followed him for six or seven minutes until police arrived.

Los Angeles Police Department patrol officers from the Topanga Division arrived and took Jacob Marshall, 24, into custody, according to the LAPD. He was booked shortly afterward on suspicion of felony kidnapping and was being held Friday at the Van Nuys jail in lieu of 100,000 bail.

LAPD detectives were preparing Friday to present the case to the District Attorney’s office.

In a news release, police credited an unidentified female citizen for calling out to the suspect and following him until police arrived.

While Angie said she was pleased she could help, she was puzzled at the large number of drivers who were in the area but did not stop to aid the teen, she said.

“It’s bothersome to see that our society has come to the point where people are self involved; there isn’t that humanity in most people,” she said.

She added that she hopes someone would help if that were to happen to any of her family members or anyone else for that matter.

Angie said she’s in contact with the girl, who she said is doing OK considering the circumstances. The teen’s mom called crying to thank her for her actions, she said.

“She said ‘I’m so grateful you were there, so grateful you did something,’” she said.