There are a few things very odd about this case.
1. The rapist began talking to the woman first, and then proceeded to attempt a rape in what can only be described as basically a public and lighted area.
2. The way the CBS13 story reads, the second man enters the Laundromat with a gun apparently already prepared then confronts the suspect.
3. They later fight behind the Laundromat, yet neither is apparently shot. Nor apparently does the fight devolve into a serious enough scenario to warrant more than a threat to abort the rape.
The whole thing stinks.
It's not at all what it appears to be assuming, of course, the reporting is accurate, and mitigating information has not been purposely withheld. And you can bet the police have withheld information because they know it stinks. Any Dick worth his salt knows this reeks, and Horel does too.
And the man who broke it up was not an innocent passing bystander who happened to be armed and just cruising by, he was a spot-man (lookout) or was out hunting the suspect (probably cause he knew what he might attempt and had some idea of his whereabouts) who crashed the party for whatever reasons, either he had spotted heat, had been made, feared interference from someone else, realized he knew the victim or knew of her, had a change of heart, whatever.
If they crack this soon don't be surprised if it oozes around the edges a little.
The facts, if true, look like how a hooker and her pimp might operate, the scenario fits that too. Or the woman may have been trying to break off with an old lover, and the new one was prepared.
The fact that the defender didn't pull speaks volumes. He wasn't righteous. This is NOT being accurately reported.