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A Winnipeg woman wants to thank the Good Samaritan who rescued her from a suspected meth-fuelled attack, but first she has to find him.

Around 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 23, Kacie Mathisen was walking home from the liquor store on Ellice Avenue and Hargrave Street when she encountered a heavy-set lady who was screaming profanities in the parking lot. Mathisen believed the woman was in a "meth-fuelled rage."

Mathisen, 20, said she kept walking and tried to avoid eye contact. The woman shoved Mathisen and yelled explicit racial comments.

"I just had my hands up and and I was like 'I don't know you,'" Mathisen said. "I looked across the street and there was this guy... and I just yelled 'Please help me.'"

The stranger ran over to the two women and pulled Mathisen to safety, while the other woman walked away, Mathisen said.

"I was just scared. I just wanted to get out of there and get away from the lady," Mathisen said. "That guy, if he wasn't there I have no idea what would have happened."

In the days following the attack, Mathisen started posting on social media, searching for her Good Samaritan. She said she still hasn't found him.

"Thank you so much for standing up and putting your life on the line to come help me out," Mathisen said in a message to her rescuer. "I don’t know what I would have done if you weren't there."

Police Insp. Max Waddell said the attack resembles other recent meth attacks.

"In the beginning of taking methamphetamine, often individuals are more in a state of euphoria," said Waddell. "But after the high ends, which is usually about 12 hours, they get into a stage we refer to as tweaking, which is really an empty, desperate and sometimes violent stage of the meth binge, as we call it."

Waddell cautions the public to never engage with someone who appears to be on meth because they are unpredictable. Instead, call for help and get out of the situation.

danton.unger@freepress.mb.ca