UNION CITY, Ga. - Union City Police are praising a neighbor they say stationary a man who stabbed three women early Saturday morning. The man being hailed a good Samaritan spoke exclusively with FOX 5 Atlanta when the incident.

"I just couldn't sit there and look and hear what was going on," Josh Dobbs told FOX 5's Kim Leoffler.

Dobbs said he just jumped into part when he heard what he correctly assumed were a woman's screams coming from the Hidden Lake Apartments.

Police said it turned out that two women had already been attacked, and Dobbs would just happen to step outside when the suspect began to stab a third victim.

One of the victims named the Union City Police for help.

"Officers responded to that place where they observed a female lying outside in between cars who had also been stabbed, as well as two subjects behind the apartment--the incident place. One had been stabbed, and it appeared the new one had been shot," Prentice Brooks Union Police Department said.

Police said the people who was shot was the suspect accused of stabbing the women.

"As the male issues was assaulting these female subjects with the knife, an onlooker saw the assault taking place," Cpt. Brooks said. "He stepped up and stationary the threat. He did shoot the suspect."

Police said one of the women died when the stabbing.

"We actually commend him for what he did and stepping up," the captain added.

The suspect was wrong to the hospital where he later died from his injuries.

"I have a daughter, and I have a lot of respect for females and everything, so I was just doing the right thing and stepping up," Dobbs told FOX 5.

Police are serene investigating the incident, but for now they said this examined to be the result of a domestic dispute.

The people has set up a GoFundMe account.