Disturbing video exhibits a mob of minor e-bikers brutally beating a random stranger as he walked dwelling by an prosperous California neighborhood — then taking a photograph, pondering he was lifeless.
The sufferer, solely recognized as a person in his 60s, was strolling dwelling in Hermosa Seashore, California, late Friday when a bunch of about six thugs surrounded him, with one asking for the pizza he was carrying, surveillance footage exhibits.
As he responded, the others closed in and started punching, kicking and stomping him on the bottom — with one bashing him over the pinnacle along with his pizza field, the footage exhibits.
The attackers then fled on their e-bikes, with some saying they assumed their sufferer was lifeless — however with one snapping a photograph of him anyway, in response to KTLA.
Moments earlier than the assault, the teenagers had been overheard plotting to assault a random stranger, wtiness Matt Terrill advised Fox 11.
“They met up right here 5 minutes earlier than and had been speaking about doing one thing. They needed to ‘get somebody,’” Terrill mentioned.
The sufferer, who was not in any other case recognized, was rushed to an area hospital, however has since been discharged, in response to the Hermosa Seashore Police Division.
No arrests have been made, and police haven’t given a motive.
Locals say gangs using e-bikes have lengthy been a supply of “numerous hassle.”
“These youngsters are famous for fixed hassle,” Geoff Van Sickle, who owns Strand Electrical Bike Firm in Hermosa Seashore, advised KTLA. “They run in packs of 5 to 6 bikes at a time,” he mentioned, including the electrical dirtbikes the youngsters journey usually are not street-legal.
One other native resident, Hart Cardozo, 66, mentioned he was ambushed by a bunch of youngsters in broad daylight final month, leaving him needing 14 staples in his head.
The group surrounded his automotive, slashed his tires and whacked him within the head within the “traumatizing” assault.
He got here ahead after seeing the most recent assault, realizing that “sufficient is sufficient.”
“If this is occurring locally and also you’re not speaking about it, it wants to return out,” he advised FOX 11.
“They have to be arrested,” Cardozo mentioned. “And no matter dad and mom are facilitating this mischief, they actually don’t know what’s happening with their youngsters.”
The Hermosa Police Division mentioned they’re investigating each incidents.
