Chick-fil-A employee hailed for stopping man from carjacking mother with infant

Thomas Mykel' Gordon praised as one incredible individual' after fighting off assailant outside Florida restaurant

An employee of a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Florida is being praised as a hero after he fought off a man trying to steal a car from a woman getting her infant out of the vehicle in a harrowing parking lot confrontation captured on video.

Incredibly, it wasn't even the first time that 26-year-old Thomas Mykel" Gordon rushed to save someone in distress near his workplace. Four years earlier, he had reportedly helped rescue two girls after a construction crane fell on their car.