Homeless man dragged female jogger by the hair toward public restroom in Santa Monica, police say



A woman was attacked by a homeless man while she was jogging in Santa Monica, and witnesses say he was trying to drag her into the public restrooms by her ponytail.

The Santa Monica Police Department said they responded to reports about the harrowing incident on May 13 at about 7:14 a.m. on Ocean Beach Walk near lifeguard tower 20.

“The victim, a Venice resident, was jogging southbound on the beach path when the suspect grabbed her ponytail from behind, knocking her to the ground,” police said in a statement.

“He then pulled her several feet toward the restrooms.”

Police said they found both the alleged attacker and the woman near the Bicknell restrooms and took him into custody without incident.

The victim believed that the man intended to sexually assault her, according to a report from the Santa Monica Daily Press. Witnesses to the attack reportedly intervened and called the police.

Police later identified the man as 48-year-old Malcolm Jimmy Ward Jr. and said that he was on parole for assault with a deadly weapon.

On Wednesday, Ward was charged with felony kidnapping, felony assault with intent to commit rape, and for violating his parole, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

Residents of the area told KCAL-TV that violent crime has gotten worse and worse in recent years.

"I'm glad people came to her aid right away," said Allie Trefz, a resident of Santa Monica. "Definitely more of that, that's incredible. That's what we should be doing is all helping each other.

"I'm careful, I have a history as a psychiatric nurse, so I have some experience, and so I'm not maybe as fearful as most people are, but I know you have to keep your distance, if people are hallucinating," said another resident.

"Obviously, anyone who assaults someone else is not mentally in the right head space, and they need help, but somebody to do that in broad daylight, it's like, they're not even thinking, they're just impulsively acting," said Anna Meyer to KTTV-TV.

Police released a photograph of Ward in order to seek help from the public in identifying other possible victims.

The woman's age was not disclosed. She suffered minor injuries from the incident.

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Video shows driver intentionally ramming his car into elderly homeless woman in parking lot of California church



California police are asking for the public's help in identifying a driver who intentionally rammed his car into a 77-year-old woman in a church parking lot after a verbal altercation.

The video is from surveillance cameras at the parking lot of the First Presbyterian Church of Heyward in Castro Valley on Saturday evening.

It shows a white sedan almost back into the homeless woman before they appear to have a verbal dispute. The car then circles around and sideswipes the woman, forcing her to drop her cane.

Then the car circles around again in the parking lot and hits the back end of a different car before speeding up to slam into the woman and her cart again. The woman is momentarily thrown onto the car's hood before falling to the ground.

Deputies were called to the scene at about 7:25 p.m.

Church workers told KTVU-TV that they were shocked and had never seen the driver there before. Aaron Horner, the church's director of community outreach, said that the woman was homeless, hearing impaired, and often attended the church.

A program manager at the church told KTVU that she visited the hospitalized woman and that she had suffered head lacerations and bruising but was in good spirits.

Police said that the license plate of the car was not visible in the video but that it was likely a mid-2010s Nissan Altima. The driver faces charges of felony hit and run and vehicular assault.

"Disgusting. Someone who is lawless, someone who does not have compassion or empathy for anyone else, disregard for life. We want to bring this person to justice to have them be held accountable for it," said Alameda County Sheriff's Office Lt. Tya Modeste about the case.

Horner also had a message for the driver.

"I hope you get the help you need, man," he said. "Hurting other people, that's not it."

Here's a local news report about the incident:

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Video shows random liquid attack that left man with severe burns. NYPD says attacker was a homeless man.



A random liquid attack on a man in New York City was caught on surveillance video and police are looking for a suspect they believe is a homeless man.

The incident unfolded after 10 p.m. on July 5.

Elmar Garscha says he was walking home after work in the Diamond District when a man ran up behind him and splashed a container of unknown liquid on his back.

"I realized there was a guy following me and he was maybe 10 feet behind me, rushing towards me," Garscha said to WABC-TV.

The 57-year-old Garscha suffered serious burns when he was hit with the scalding hot liquid.

"The injuries are extensive, and it doesn't look that big of a cup," Garscha said. "He burned my entire back with second-degree burn, over my shoulders."

Garscha was treated in a burn unit for his injuries.

"The physical pain I can deal with," he said. "It's the fact that you know somebody's out there to get you. Somebody wants to hurt you on purpose. And the guy laughed in my face, and ran away. He smiled at me, like, 'Gotcha.' That's what really got to me."

The shirtless man fled after the attack. Police said they were looking for a man about 5-foot-7 weighing about 130 pounds.They believe the man is homeless.

Garscha said he has worked as a jeweler in Midtown Manhattan for two decades, but that he would no longer take the subway late at night.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has been criticized heavily for the growing homeless crisis in the city. In 2019, he was lambasted by critics for opening up the lottery for spaces in homeless shelters to illegal aliens.

"It's just the latest idiotic idea to come out of this administration," said NYC councilman Eric Ulrich at the time.

Here's the video of the heinous attack:

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14-year-old stabbed 25 times in random attack in Fargo. Police say a homeless man attacked her for 25 mins.



The family of a 14-year-old girl who was stabbed 25 times says she was the victim of a random attack. Police arrested a homeless man for the crime.

Robert Paulsen said that his daughter, Daisy "Jupiter" Paulsen, was skateboarding to her mother's home on Friday when she was randomly and brutally attacked in the parking lot of a strip mall.

Paulsen wrote on his GoFundMe post that his teen daughter was beaten, strangled, and stabbed 25 times.

Fargo Police arrested 23-year-old Arthur Prince Kollie and initially charged him with attempted murder, robbery and aggravated assault.

Police said that they were called to the scene when a garbage man said that he had witnessed Kollie leaning over a victim with one hand over her neck and another hand over her nose.

They said that surveillance video showed that Kollie had allegedly assaulted the teenager for 25 minutes before he ran away.

The teen's parents told investigators that her backpack and cellphone were missing.

Police said that Kollie was seen shirtless in a Walmart taking clothes and changing into them. They said they later found his discarded pants and shoes with what appeared to be blood on them.

Kollie was later arrested and he allegedly told police that he had taken methamphetamine at noon on Thursday and hadn't slept since taking the drug. He also reportedly told them he suffers from anxiety, depression and multiple personality disorder.

Court documents said that Kollie didn't remember assaulting the victim, but that he had fresh cuts on his hand.

When he was charged with attempted murder, Kollie reportedly responded, "attempted murder, as is she alive? Or what? What does attempted murder mean?"

Daisy Paulsen died of her injuries on Tuesday.

Here's a local news video about the horrific attack:

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Video captures bizarre torch attack on Seattle cop; neighbors blame homeless encampment



A Seattle police officer was injured when he was allegedly attacked by a man with a piece of flaming lumber and residents of the neighborhood say a homeless encampment is to blame.

The startling incident unfolded on Thursday near Deny Park in Seattle, Washington, at a homeless encampment.

Witnesses told KOMO-TV that they saw a man yelling racial slurs at the park and waving around a piece of lumber on fire.

Police on Thursday released video of the incident.

The video shows the police officer arriving and telling the man, who is carrying the torch, to stop. The man yells, "f**k you!" and charges at the police cruiser with the torch.

He shoves the flaming torch into the cruiser as the officer fires at him several times. The man runs away as the officer calls for backup.

Here's the video from Seattle PD:

Later video showed that the cruiser was completely destroyed by the flames from the torch. A suspect was later arrested and identified as 37-year-old Brian Joseph Leil.

Leil was charged with first and second-degree assault and held under $500,000 bail.

The officer was hospitalized with non-life-threatening burns to his hands and legs from the incident.

Residents of the neighborhood told KOMO that they have been demanding for the city to do something about the homeless encampment in the park near the site of the incident.

"I'm getting tired of all the garbage happening, truthfully, because that park is dangerous," said Ken Wright who lives near the park.

"Hopefully the mayor will jump on it, and do something about it, you know because it can't remain, they can't remain there," said Melanie Westbrook, who also lives nearby.

Another KOMO report said that frustrated parents were angry at finding needles, glass and tents at the park and wanted city officials to do something about the problem.

Here's more about the shocking incident:

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