CALABASAS, Calif. (TCD) — Deputies have located and arrested a 29-year-old man on suspicion of assaulting a grandfather while he was pushing his infant granddaughter in a stroller this week.
According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, on Tuesday, Dec. 5, at around 4:30 p.m., deputies from the Malibu/Lost Hills Station received two calls regarding separate “unprovoked attacks on unsuspecting victims,” a male juvenile and a 60-year-old man.
The sheriff’s office posted a bulletin of the suspect’s photo in an attempt to identify him. Officials allege he parked his 2005 silver Honda Odyssey at a nearby home, went up to the 60-year-old victim as he was walking his granddaughter, and “struck” him in the face in the 4000 block of Lost Springs Road before fleeing the scene.
According to KABC-TV, the victim fell to the pavement, and the stroller collapsed to its side. The grandfather and his 10-month-old granddaughter did not suffer serious injury.
Sgt. Brandon Painter told KABC the suspect allegedly assaulted the second victim, a 10-year-old boy, on a bike path minutes later. The sheriff’s office did not specify the severity of the child’s injury.
Deputies located the suspect, Angel Sanchez Jr., the next day in Oxnard and arrested him on a charge of assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury.
Both victims were of Asian American/Pacific Islander descent, but the sheriff’s department said the “motive for the attacks is currently under investigation.”
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