Thug walks up to 82-year-old man who apparently uses wheelchair, stabs him from behind in reportedly unprovoked attack inside Los Angeles Taco Bell



Surveillance video caught the moment an 82-year-old man was stabbed from behind while eating in a Los Angeles Taco Bell, KTTV-TV reported.

Fox News called it an unprovoked attack.

What are the details?

Los Angeles police said the suspect on Oct. 3 approached the elderly man from behind as he was dining inside the fast-food restaurant in the 12000 block of Venice Boulevard, KTTV reported. Surveillance video showed an empty wheelchair next to the victim, who was seated in a restaurant chair at the time of the attack.

The suspect then stabbed the victim in the neck and shoulder and ran from the scene, KTTV said, citing police, who responded around 7 p.m.

The victim was rushed to a hospital, KTTV said, and remains as of Thursday on the road to recovery. Fox News said he was in critical condition.

What do we know about the suspect?

The suspect is described as a bald man, likely in his 20s or 30s, who stands between 5 feet, 1-inch and 5 feet, 6 inches tall and weighs about 130 pounds, KTTV said.

The suspect also has a large tattoo on the back of his head and a small tattoo next to his left eye, LAPD added to the station.

Anyone with information can call 310-482-6369, KTTV said.

How are folks reacting?

Commenters on Yahoo! News were horrified and angry about the stabbing:

  • "Can't get much lower than that," one commenter said.
  • "Defund the police they said. No cash bail the said. Empty the jails they said. Any theft under $1,000 is acceptable they said. Now we are dealing with all these upstanding citizens. Congratulations, you've gone and done it, and innocent people are paying the price," one commenter reacted. "Fire every single politician that supports such madness."
  • "And when we catch him we will let him go!" another commenter predicted.
  • "I have come to believe that all these actions by the various and sundry state and local governments that have led to this enormous escalation in violent crime is being perpetrated for that very reason: to increase instances of violent crime against the citizenry and make them scared," another commenter wrote. "Scared people are easier to lead and control, and when things get so bad as they are becoming, it will be much easier to get the people to accept any solution that's proposed — and those solutions will not be anything that anybody today would be willing to accept."

Thugs repeatedly punch 67-year-old man — then take turns kicking him after he's thrown on floor in apartment lobby; he needed surgery for a broken hip



Three people were caught on video repeatedly punching a 67-year-old man — and then two of them took turns kicking the victim after he was thrown to the floor of an Oklahoma City apartment lobby last month.

What are the details?

Officials said the elderly victim was standing in a common area of the apartment complex — located on the 1700 block of Northeast 4th Street — around 11:30 a.m. Aug. 24 when the individuals approached him, KFOR-TV reported.

Video shows a woman wearing a white tank top trying to grab what appears to be the victim's cellphone and then hitting the victim on the top of his head. A man wearing a purple hoodie stands next to her.

Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @OKCPD

The clip then shifts to the man in the purple hoodie taking huge swings at the victim with both fists, over and over.

Image source: KFOR-TV video screenshot

A third individual — a woman wearing a red tank top — is seen pushing and throwing punches at the victim as well.

Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @OKCPD

While the victim tries to fight back, the man in the purple hoodie just tosses the victim across the floor of an elevator lobby in the apartment complex.

Image source: KFOR-TV video screenshot

Image source: KFOR-TV video screenshot

When the victim tries to get up, the man in the the purple hoodie walks by and kicks the victim in the face; seconds later, the woman in the white tank top walks by and kicks the victim as well.

Image source: KFOR-TV video screenshot

Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @OKCPD

The woman in the red tank top doesn't appear to do anything to the victim as she walks by.

\u201cWe need to identify these people today.\n\nA brutal attack on an elderly man that sends him to the hospital, and the crime is caught on tape. \n\nThis is absolutely uncalled for and we need your help.\n\n\ud83d\udcbb: https://t.co/YVxGWebSAS\n\ud83d\udcf1: (405) 235-7300\u201d
— Oklahoma City Police (@Oklahoma City Police) 1663424979

Master Sgt. Jennifer Wardlow with the Oklahoma City Police called it a "vicious attack" and "seemingly unprovoked," KFOR reported.

Wardlow told the station police are "confident that someone is going to recognize these individuals."

What happened to the victim?

Authorities said the victim was taken to an emergency room where he later needed surgery to repair a fractured hip, KFOR reported.

“From looking at the video, it’s obvious that these suspects are significantly younger than he is. So we want to get these people identified,” Wardlow told the station.

“We have a number of ways to do that. And ultimately, if it leads to either charges filed or an arrest made, we’d be happy to pay through Crime Stoppers,” she added to KFOR.

The station said information can be anonymously submitted to Crime Stoppers online or by phone at 405-235-7300 for a chance of a cash reward leading to an arrest.

Woman, 20, accused of slashing 82-year-old man in head with machete in NYC. Last month, suspect was arrested, released after allegedly displaying machete.



A 20-year-old woman with a string of weapons-related arrests under her belt is accused of slashing an 82-year-old man in the head with a machete in an unprovoked attack in New York City.

Last month, the suspect was arrested and released after allegedly following a man and displaying a machete, sources told the New York Post.

What are the details?

In the Wednesday morning attack against the elderly victim, Deashe Calhoun lunged at Hubert Meulens at Stone Street and Broadway, Metropolitan Transportation Authority police and sources told the Post.

Meulens was left with a fractured skull and 11 stitches, the paper said.

“Even with just one blow, I could have passed away,” Meulens told the Post during a phone interview from his Bellevue Hospital bed.

“I’m surprised she wasn’t in prison,” the victim added to the paper in regard to his attacker. “She needs to be away from society for a long time.”

The Post, citing sources, said Calhoun was out free despite seven prior arrests, each involving a machete or other weapons — including when she was accused of following a 31-year-old man and displaying her machete without using it on Aug. 25. The paper said she was arrested in released for the latter incident, too, sources noted.

\u201cDeranged UWS machete slasher held on $500K bail in concierge attack https://t.co/00xVatf41z\u201d
— New York Post (@New York Post) 1662664209

'Maniac'

One police source told the paper the suspect is a "maniac" who's "known to carry knives, sharp instruments, machetes. How is she out walking around?”

Meulens’ son added to the Post that he's feared an attack on his father was coming, as he's a “soft target” in middle of spiking crime in the city.

“I tell him every night, 'Be careful on the trains and in the street,'” the victim's son, 50-year-old Peter Marcel revealed to the paper. “There are a lot of zombies on the trains who are very unpredictable and irrational. It’s not being dealt with. Unfortunately, my fears have come true.”

A Manhattan cop added to Post that "this is what happens when you let people run around the streets with weapons. Eventually they will use them and attack an innocent elderly person.”

More from the paper:

After Meulens was slashed in the face, he stumbled down Broadway after his attacker, but she spun around and sprayed him with the bear spray and kept walking toward MTA headquarters, authorities said. Three MTA cops spotted her with the spray and “acting irrationally” in front of headquarters, then saw her drop the machete from under her armpit, according to authorities.

Calhoun was arrested for assault, attempted assault, criminal possession of a weapon and harassment, cops said.

Meulens is now expected to remain hospitalized until at least Thursday, he said.

“I am not angry,” Meulens, a building concierge, told the Post. “I would suggest she needs to be examined by a doctor. She needs psychiatric help.”

What else is the suspect accused of?

Calhoun on March 26 was charged after threatening someone in Washington Square Park while brandishing a knife and declaring “I’m coming for ya,” sources told the paper.

Three months later — June 26 — she was charged with flashing a switchblade at someone in a Blink fitness center on Avenue A in Manhattan, sources added to the Post.

Then Calhoun was charged July 28 with tampering with physical evidence — followed by an arrest three days later on a weapons charge after she brandished her machete at a victim on Fifth Avenue, sources noted to the paper.

The Post added that twice last month the suspect was seen with blades on Brooklyn trains – on Aug. 7 when she was caught with two knives, and again on Aug. 13 when she was seen with her machete, sources said.

Suspect arrested in machete attack in Lower Manhattanyoutu.be

Video: Gun-toting thugs demand Uber driver exit his car in broad-daylight heist; when he refuses, one of them shoots driver dead.



Surveillance video caught the moment when two hooded individuals approached an Oakland Uber driver's car around 11 a.m. Sunday and demanded he get out, KGO-TV reported.

But when 52-year-old Kon "Patrick" Fung refused to exit his vehicle in the 2000 block of 13th Avenue, one of the suspects shot him dead and ran away from the scene, the station said, adding that police are calling it an attempted robbery.

Image source: KGO-TV video screenshot

Victim's girlfriend speaks out

Fung's girlfriend of five years told KGO about her personal tragedy in the hopes it will lead to solutions to violence plaguing the northern California city and the Bay Area.

"She's afraid to even leave her house, and she can't sleep," an interpreter for Judy — she wanted only her first name used for the story — explained to the station. "The whole incident happened in less than five seconds. In that span, she lost her boyfriend."

She added in Mandarin, "I'm so scared. I don't dare go outside. I just think of him dying," KGO said.

Judy was buying groceries in Oakland's Chinatown the morning of the killing, the station said, adding that her son heard the gunshot and told the rest of the family what happened.

She added that her boyfriend Fung was "a hard worker" and told KGO he even worked on Sundays: "It's because of his job, his hard-working trade, that he got killed."

Image source: KGO-TV video screenshot

Judy's home is near the city's Little Saigon neighborhood, the station said, adding that KGO covered a gathering there last month featuring dozens of business owners concerned about crime there and and in nearby predominately Asian areas.

"Why us? We are hard-working. We go to work, we pay our bills, but why are we being targeted over and over again? This has to stop," Judy told the station as she wiped tears away from her face.

Her interpreter told KGO that she "wants more help from the city patrolling the neighborhood. She needs more resources to make sure the safety of this neighborhood is protected. She's pleading for help to catch the two perpetrators to bring them to justice as soon as possible."

The Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council — whose president, Stewart Chen, helped translate for Judy — is assisting with a GoFundMe to pay for funeral expenses, the station said.

The Oakland Police Department released video footage of the killing in the hopes that the pair of suspects can be identified, KGO said, adding that police and CrimeStoppers of Oakland announced a reward of up to $12,500 for information leading to an arrest.

If you know these individuals or have information about this case, the station said to contact the Oakland Police Department Homicide Section at 510- 238-3821 or the TIP LINE at (510) 238-7950.