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LOWELL, Ind. (WISH) – A man in the country illegally is charged with attempted murder after stabbing a 14-year-old girl.

It happened over the weekend at a youth baseball game in northwest Indiana.

Matt Ramian told I-Team 8 that he was working as a third base coach when he saw Dimas Yanes attack the sibling of one of his players.

The Lake County Sheriff said Yanes has been in the country illegally since his deportation in 2018.

Raiman said: “It didn't feel real. It didn't feel right. It didn't feel like it was really happening.”

He says the 14-year-old girl was sitting alone in the stands when Yanes approached her, pulled out a large knife and attacked her. “He just started swinging the knife at her two or three times, then he jumped off and started running. As he was running, he pulled the knife on two other people, and it was just crazy to watch because I'm standing on third base trying to get the guys off the field.”

Then a group of fathers followed Yanes.

He managed to escape, but was found by police the next day fleeing from a cornfield.

According to court documents, Yanes told police he was from Honduras and entered the United States through Texas in 2022. He says he did not do it intentionally and that someone followed him and asked him to do so.

Raiman said: “Everyone wants to know why he chose her. Just because she was the only one in the stands? Was it because he thought she was vulnerable? Nobody knows.”

Despite everything that has happened, the 14-year-old girl remains strong.

Raiman said, “She's a soldier. She's a fighter, man. She's doing really well. She insisted on going to school today and her mom told her, 'You know, you should stay home,' and I know she wanted to go to school, so she did.”

The family wishes to protect their privacy, but in a statement, the teen's mother praised the first responders who helped, saying: “This is a difficult time for us, we are still in shock and have not yet processed that this is really happening. You don't believe something like this can happen to you and when it does, it is a shock. The community came together on their days off to search for the suspect and immediately pursued him. It is just unbelievable how many kind people there are in the world who come together to catch the bad guys.”

Ramian doesn't want the incident to give all immigrants a bad name. “When you treat decent people here and then something like this happens and you get a bad name just because of that, you know, it's sad. As the saying goes, one bad apple spoils the rest.”

Ramian and the baseball community in Lowell say they will hold a fundraiser to help pay medical bills and possible therapy for the teenager.