Posted on 01/18/2008 8:13:39 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
A brutal assault on a 78-year-old woman during a daytime burglary in an upscale Daly City home has left the victim in critical condition and prompted the city to offer a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of her suspected attacker, police reported Thursday.
The assault began with a robber forcing his way into a house in the city's quiet Serramonte neighborhood, and concluded with the senior lying semi-conscious, fighting for her life on the floor of her home.
She was bleeding profusely from massive blows to the face and the head — the victim of repeated strikes to the head with a crowbar, according to police.
Officials have identified a 28-year-old suspect in the attack.
"It was horrible," said Daly City police Lt. Jay Morena. "In my 28 years, I can't recall anything similar — such a vicious attack on an innocent person inside her home in broad daylight."
Officers responding to a silent burglary alarm found the woman shortly after 3:40 p.m. Saturday in what police are now calling a "botched attempt" at a burglary.
Investigators now believe the intruder who committed the crime had called her earlier in the day, impersonating a delivery man with a package which required a signature. He apparently had intended to learn when the woman would not be at home, police said.
The suspect arrived at the home shortly before 3:15 p.m., breaking into a rear sliding glass door with his crow bar, police said.
The woman apparently surprised the robber inside her home and suffered the consequences, according to police.
"He just repeatedly beat her with a crowbar on the side of the face and the head ... and left her for dead," Morena said.
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The woman, a longtime Daly City resident with two adult children in the Bay Area, remained in critical condition in the intensive care unit of an area hospital, police reported. Her children are "shocked and obviously extremely concerned about their mother, but doing as well as can be expected," Morena said.
Since the attack, the Daly City Police Department has placed eight detectives on the case, "working day and night since Saturday afternoon," Morena said. "Just the heinous idea of what this guy did — it's providing a lot of adrenaline to keep a lot of detectives up for a lot of hours." Investigators have positively identified a suspect with telephone records from the woman's phone service and evidence left at the scene of the crime that matches evidence from a burglary in Pacifica in December. Police are now searching for Jose Perez Gonzalez, 28, of South San Francisco. Gonzalez, who stands 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 145 pounds, is an illegal immigrant from Guadalajara, Mexico, police reported. He has shaved black hair, brown eyes and several distinctive tattoos on his right arm: a Harley-Davidson motorcycle emblem and a black dragon.
Gonzalez, who often uses aliases, may work as a house painter in the San Jose area and may frequent gyms in San Francisco, police said. He now is wanted on suspicion of attempted murder, armed robbery and aggravated assault, among other charges.
Crowbar? He must have been a real tough guy.
Every crime committed by an illegal alien is a preventable crime.
I wonder how many times this animal has been sent back.
Wow, 28-years-old, in the prime of life, works out, and still needed a crowbar to take out a 78-year-old woman. Scumbag's probably back in Mexico by now, and they'll protect him from gringo justice.
Illegal aliens are more likely to commit crimes than American citizens are.
I wonder how many of us wish we were with her at the time.
Illegals just beating the crap out of elderly Americans that citizens won’t.
Police are now searching for Jose Perez Gonzalez, 28, of South San Francisco.
San Francisco, CA is one of the numerous sanctuary cities here in the wonderful blue state of Kalifornia.
Citizens in sanctuary cities should be able to carry.
Exactly. Unless we close the border the crimes will continue to escalate.
[”I want to remind people that family values do not stop at the Rio Grande River.”]
True, the corruption from south of the border has been invading the United States for many years now.
Numerous blows with a crowbar on an elderly woman!!
Depraved....absolutely depraved!
[depraved!]
Yes, he could probably have told her to sit down and close her eyes and she would have obeyed and told him where valuables were!!
Why do we not hear more about gang violence, is it that they are just killing each other or what? I believe I read that clear back in the 70’s the MS-13 threatened to ‘invade the US’ and kill every citizen they could!!
And invading and killing us, they are....by the thousands, yearly!
It’s galling that Bush keeps spouting his disgusting mantra how Americans are “lazy” and “bigots” but that these cockroaches deserve anything from this country.
Unless you're a Liberal, then it's a case of "You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.:
Are you making a statement?
I don’t think any of these politicos will ever care until it’s “one of their own”....then maybe they’d shed something besides a crocodile tear and use a brain cell.
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