Posted on 06/05/2021 5:34:09 AM PDT by USA Conservative
GARDENA, Calif. — A man suspected of viciously attacking a woman at a gas station in Gardena was arrested in Long Beach Friday evening.
Authorities were looking for a 300-to-350-pound shirtless man seen in a video attacking the woman at the gas station.
The attack appears to be random and without provocation, and left the woman, a 25-year-old single mother, hospitalized with serious injuries.
The suspect, who has not been immediately identified, was taken into custody around 7:30 p.m. after a family member turned him in. The family member expressed concern he would hurt someone else or himself.
Investigators say the suspect, who is in his late 40s, is currently on parole for assault.
The assault happened Sunday, May 30 around 7:10 p.m. at a station in the 500 block of Rosecrans Avenue in Gardena.
On surveillance video, the woman is seen pumping gas at her car as the suspect emerges from his black Ford Expedition at the next pump and calmly walks up to her.
He immediately starts punching her repeatedly in the head and body, even as she falls to the ground. As she lays helpless on the ground, he continues punching her again and again. He also grabs her hair to slam her head against the car and the ground multiple times.
The attack continued for at least 40 seconds until he stopped and stood over her motionless body. The surveillance video of the brutal assault shows the large man getting out of his car, walking up to the woman as she pumps gas, then, without provocation, he sucker punches her in the face and continues to beat her on the ground.
Video below:
A 63-year-old woman was attacked Saturday night near the same intersection. She was sitting in her car at a traffic light when the suspect walked up and punched her.
Police believe there may have been other assaults and they are asking victims and witnesses to come forward.
The woman in the gas station attack told Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies she did not recognize the man and that he didn’t take any personal property from her.
She was described as a 25-year-old single mother who was stopping for gas as she headed home from work that day. Detectives say she didn’t even notice the suspect until he was attacking her.
“He walked around, she didn’t see him,” LASD Det. Keegan McInnis told Eyewitness News. “By the time she looked up he had thrown the first punch. You see in the video the attack is pretty vicious. Then he calmly walks away as if nothing had happened.”
She suffered severe injuries to her face and head from the attack and was transported to a hospital. She was later released and was recuperating at home.
“This is a 25-year-old single mother who just got off work and was on her way home,” McInnis said. “This could be your daughter, this could be your sister, your mom. She was just innocently pumping gas.”
“Any info that could help us identify this gentleman and bring him into custody would help your community be safer and help our victim sleep better at night.”
“She’s afraid to even take her daughter to school right now because of this attack.”
Not one media reported about this attack and condemned this hate crime.
I would hardly describe the guy as a “gentleman.”
I hope that the poor woman will recover quickly. And fully.
Yes. As it was known in the Old West, “the Great Equalizer.”
You got that right. 30 years ago, my dad showed me and my sister where he grew up, in the south side of Chicago. Used to be a Czechoslovakian neighborhood.
Not anymore.
Plenty of unemployed blacks sitting outside drinking Colt .45’s. My dad locked the doors and rolled up the windows.
You are correct. It is increasingly dangerous to come to the defense of a third party, who probably will turn out to be a Democrat and unappreciative.
This is allowed to happen for a reason but the outcome won’t be to the liking of the politicians. The media tries to keep this quiet but it doesn’t work because everybody knows somebody who has been a victim. The politicians try to say White Nationalists are the biggest threat but almost no one knows anyone who was a victim of those groups.
So the media just keeps repeating “The reason for this crime is not the reason”
You know why the media is ignoring these attacks.
Three men confronted and stopped him.
Was very surprised at my reasoning. Told him all blm/antifa has to do to shut down the parking deck is park one car the wrong way. Whole thing is closed.
Boss was surprised I'd thought about that. Told him prior to Floyd I did think about it but considered it a remote possibility. After Floyd that changed.
Plus the DIE office is intentionally heavily recruiting minorities and the biggest bunch of freaks you've ever seen. Rapidly becoming a minority in the building.
Hoping work from home continues. The only good thing to come out of the Fauzi Fraud.
SPJNK.
Working from home...yes that was ONE good thing.
My husband loves it. He’s in top management at the CRTC (the Canadian equivalent of the FCC).
Soon, they will want people back. But I predict that there will be a number of people who want to mix it up. Say two or three days at the office, to catch up with people and share water cooler gossip, and the rest at home.
He will be expected to be present more because of his position, but people have loved losing the commute times, the expenses of clothes, lunches and gas.
He has actually found that the employees are doing more work at home.
The funny show The Office could not be made today.
“The politicians try to say White Nationalists are the biggest threat but almost no one knows anyone who was a victim of those groups.”
Never mind a victim, who even knows anybody who identifies as a white nationalist/supremacist? Let’s say there are 1,000 in every state. That is 50,000 people total. Some threat. The Dems and the media will keep trying to gaslight us with their lies, though.
Arm yourselves. This is assault with intent to kill. Shoot the b*st*rd! And the police can’t find him? They have video and he is a three-hundred pound shirtless man? Should be easy to locate!
Good procedure.
Men are still allowed to take care of business on airplanes, thankfully.
“family member expressed concern he would hurt someone else or himself”
I’m alright with the last part of that statement — might hurt himself. He doesn’t belong among civilized people.
I don’t think the word “gentleman” means what he thinks it means.
Maybe ten years ago I read an essay by Matt Bracken who predicted that drivers would soon be randomly attacked and would need SUVs outfitted like armored cars. How foresightful he was, and is. His weekly broadcasts are usually linked here on FR.
I know my driving habits changed dramatically 30 years ago when I was mugged at gunpoint on leaving a McDonald's drive-thru with the car window still down, before even exiting the parking lot. This was in Philadelphia, then a relatively safe city, especially compared to now. It's been worth the extra gas to run my air conditioning and leave the windows up.
That fat jerk needs to be charged with attempted murder.
Not random on his part. It’s the current fad and the courts are doing nothing to stop it. BLM. Monsters target those smaller and weaker than themselves.
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