Posted on 11/10/2025 11:33:09 PM PST by Morgana
SEVEN HILLS, Ohio — A Broadview Heights man is facing an assault charge after police said he attacked a 3-year-old boy inside a Meijer store in Seven Hills on Wednesday morning.
According to Seven Hills police, the 37-year-old suspect allegedly ran up behind the child around 10:30 a.m. and smashed the boy's face into the spikes of a shopping cart.
Witnesses told officers he struck the boy's face at least three times before the child's mother and aunt grabbed their children and tried to escape through the store. They told police they were afraid for their lives.
Police said the child sustained scratches on his neck and behind his right ear, along with a bleeding cut on his nose.
An off-duty security officer drew his concealed weapon and ordered the man to the ground. Police said the man did not comply and instead threw merchandise around the store before being restrained.
Officers took the man into custody without further incident.
The man's social worker told officers that he is nonverbal and autistic. Police cited him for assault. He was released on a $375 bond and is scheduled to appear in Parma Municipal Court on Nov. 19.
In a statement, Meijer said it was aware of the incident at its Seven Hills location and is cooperating with the Seven Hills Police Department as they investigate.
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I won’t shop at any stores with “spikes” on the shopping carts! Hrumpf! Hrumpf!
I believe in “Insane, but guilty.”
It was even the basis for a Quincy, M.E. episode.
“spikes” on the shopping carts makes it easier to block the entire aisle while talking on your phone.
If he tried that on my kids, he’d be full of holes and bleeding out.
Women need to carry & practice.
The perp did this to a child and not an adult.
And it looks assault of a minor by an adult in Ohio doesn’t rate an aggrevated offense.
The perp’s no dummy.
And VIOLENT making him extremely dangerous to the public.
This is exactly why locked-down mental institutions need to be opened back up - to protect the rest of us.
Cameras will make sure the patients are treated correctly.
oh indeed he does.
and sonny boy needs to learn it is never okay to beat his mother.
What’s her problem? that would happen to me exactly once. MFer would learn the hard way, kid or not, “autistic” or not.
She permits it. It could be Martyr Syndrome for all I know.
Arm your selves my friends, a mentally deficient fully grown 37-year-old man brutally attacks a child and is arrested but is not held, he is not sent to the booby hatch (5150 danger to him self and others) is not held and IS given minimal bail.
The judge lives in a gate guarded community or has a police response time under 10 minutes so he doesn't give a dam about the rest of us.
What happens to the judge who let him out and the wacko attacks another child and kills them?..........What happens to the judge? NOT A DAM THING!
The court are a revolving door, judges have little or no accountability in real time, arm your selves my friends so when animals like this attack children they will be met with deadly force in self defense.
Isn’t weird how the lazy in this country either need somebody else to do their shopping for them and deliver it to them or have to talk on the phone while they shop because they are too stupid to make a grocery list?
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