SCOTTS VALLEY — Police have arrested two highschool college students in reference to a critical assault on a homeless man in Santa Cruz.
Scotts Valley cops detained two college students, minors whose names weren't launched as a consequence of their age, shortly earlier than 11 a.m. Monday on the Scotts Valley Excessive College campus, based on Capt. Scott Garner. The arrests have been in reference to what was described as “an aged male was battered” shortly earlier than 8:30 p.m. Friday on the 1400 block of Ocean Road, based on a Santa Cruz Police Division media log.
The kids — together with a 14-year-old Santa Cruz resident and a 16-year-old Scotts Valley resident — have been booked into Santa Cruz County Juvenile Corridor on suspicion of felony assault by means prone to trigger nice bodily harm.
Witnesses to the assault described seeing three juveniles attacking a person and “stomping” on his head, based on a Santa Cruz police launch. Investigators later obtained video displaying the assault sufferer operating away from the juveniles on Ocean Road earlier than they struck him down after which fled in a automobile.
The 53-year-old man was transported to Bay Space Trauma Heart in crucial situation for remedy of head accidents. On Tuesday, Santa Cruz Deputy Chief of Police Jon Bush stated the beating sufferer remained within the hospital recovering from his accidents, however was aware and talking. Bush dispelled rumors of the person’s demise, a thread that had run rampant on social media because the teenagers’ arrest.
Homelessness companies supplier Brent Adams, who operates the close by Footbridge Providers on the finish of Felker Road, stated the injured man was one in all his purchasers. He, too, instructed the Sentinel that he had heard that the person was deceased.
“On the evening of the assault, one in all my purchasers arrived asking for a change of garments as a result of she had blood throughout her for attempting to save lots of him,” Adams wrote in an e-mail to the Sentinel. “One other consumer reported to attempting to battle the attackers.”
Adams described the injured man as an “unbelievably candy” one who repeatedly did odd jobs for Footbridge Providers and companies within the neighborhood. Adams stated that the person, although homeless, had long-time connections to the Santa Cruz group.