SAUGUS, Mass. —

Saugus police are investigating after a family was attacked as they left the Square One Mall on Monday night.

Angela Rodriguez said she went to the mall with her family to buy a puppy for her son, Isaac, who just turned 11.

Rodriguez said she left the mall with her three children at 8 p.m. As they got closer to her car, she said she saw two masked men, one of whom was already inside the vehicle. She said her only instinct was to protect her kids.

"My other two kids were crying. Isaac came to defend me. (One man had a knife)," Rodriguez said. "But I said, 'In Jesus name you have to go away from us. Jesus is with us. You have to go away. I try to protect my kids."

Isaac said one of the men punched him in the stomach before they fled the area.

Saugus police said the men,

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