Alaska Airlines Crew Helps Student Allegedly Being Stalked by Man at Airport

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By Kayla Kunkel

Published August 16, 2019 at 8:33am

A Washington dad’s heart stopped when his daughter called and was barely able to communicate through her hysteric tears that a man was following her at the airport.

He shared his daughter’s experience on Facebook to remind travelers to be aware of their surroundings and to thank the Alaska Airlines employees who made sure his daughter arrived at her destination safely.

“During her layover, my wife and I get a phone call from her sobbing over the phone,” his post began. “She could only get out the words ‘There’s a man coming after me’, before more tears. Our hearts both stopped. Here’s the story and why Alaska Airlines has become our favorite airline.”

Mikaila Wyatt, 18, was flying alone from Sacramento, California, to Walla Walla, Washington, to celebrate her recent graduation from high school on Aug. 5, 2019.

Eighteen-year-old Mikaila Wyatt, right, said she was followed by a man while traveling to Walla Walla, Washington, to see her parents, Matthew and Krystal, on Aug. 5, 2019. Photo courtesy of Matthew Wyatt.

During her layover at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, she began to look for something to eat when a man passed her, stopped to look at her and immediately changed his course of direction.

“He then turned around and followed her close enough that she could feel his presence,” Matthew Wyatt, Mikaila’s dad, wrote on Facebook. “She got on the train that took her to her gate, and he got on with her. Standing next to her, he got on the phone and started talking in hushed tones. He followed her all the way to her gate before leaving.”

After the man left, Mikaila relaxed, thinking that he had given up, but when he returned 30 minutes later she realized that he also had a plane ticket to Walla Walla. He would be flying with her.

Realizing how much danger she could be in, she left her gate but became more panicked when she realized that he was still following her.

She called her parents and tried to convey what was happening to her through her tears.

“My daughter has had very few moments in her life where she couldn’t talk because of tears,” Matthew, who is also a pastor, told The Western Journal. “This was a time like I’ve never heard her before. She was sobbing, couldn’t catch her breath, and couldn’t fully tell us what was happening. The words that I’ll never forget were ‘There’s a man coming after me.'”

Mathew said that he and his wife encouraged her to seek help from an airport employee, but felt powerless over the phone.

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