“A 16-year-old boy who was beaten and stabbed by a group of six men apparently didn’t surrender the iPod they wanted to steal, police said today,” according to the O.C. Register.
The incident occurred about 8 p.m. Monday (Click here for first story.) when the teen was walking in the 1100 block of North Broadway and was attacked by six men who wanted his iPod, said Santa Ana police Sgt. Tammy Franks.
The boy refused to give up his iPod and was punched, kicked and hit on the head with a baseball bat before being stabbed multiple times in the upper body, Franks said.
This innocent teenager collapsed after the attack, on a nearby resident’s lawn. And what did the cops have to say about this assault and attempted murder? “It appears they didn’t get the iPod,” Franks said.
Is it just me or do our cops not value the lives of our young people? Imagine if an assault like this happened anywhere else in Orange County – and that was the best response the cops could come up with?
This was a brutal act of attempted murder…for an iPod.
My son has a friend his age who lives in that area and who has been robbed on three separate occasions of his cell phone, his bike, and his replacement cell phone. I hope that poor kids has learned not to leave his house after dark.
This attack happened mere blocks from Santa Ana Councilwoman Claudia Alvarez’ mother’s house, which Alvarez uses as her official residential address. And the assault site is close to both the SAPD headquarters and Mayor Miguel Pulido’s Floral Park estate.
Any chance our Mayor will take time off from reveling over the $170K that Supervisor Janet Nguyen just handed him to build a clay tennis court at Cabrillo Park to actually address this horrific crime? Somehow I doubt it.
Art, If you were to put the question to the Chief “What are you going to do to stop this street terrorism?”, I suspect he would answer “What can I do?” Santa Ana needs a chief who wouldn’t ask that question. I haven’t heard any sense of urgency on Chief Walters’ part in finding new ways to supress street hoodlums. I would guess he’s fairly comfortable in his own life, and not too interested in yours.
Must be more to the story.
That spot has dozens of people walking home every night at that time, with 3 business who’s window’s view that area (and would have been open then too) and there is OBP security personnel who sits right at that location at that time of night.
Now 15th and Duran is a diff story.
It’s going to get a lot worse in the near future when Ream, Pulido and the rest of the Council announce (very quietly) that they’re laying off numerous SAPD employees. Do you really think the Chief cares? Give me a break. All he cares about is the next OC Sheriff’s race.