HOUSTON – On December 23, the day earlier than Christmas Eve, Florentino Hurtado and his spouse went to La Michoacana, a meals retailer in north Houston.
Florentino, 69, who based on his household has Alzheimer’s, waited for his spouse of their automobile whereas she ran in.
Within the video, you see Florentino get out of the automobile, apparently disoriented, and attempt to get into the automobile subsequent to his.
That automobile proprietor walks out of the shop and instantly begins punching Florentino, beating him to the bottom.
The assault lasts for about two minutes. The suspect, Trayvion Lockridge, based on police, punches the sufferer eight occasions and punches/stomps him 4 occasions.
The video additionally reveals the suspect rummaging by the sufferer’s pockets, and courtroom paperwork say that Lockridge stole the sufferer’s cellphone throughout the assault.
Police arrested Lockridge, and the person he was with, Derodrick Stephens. Each are charged with aggravated theft [of a victim over the age of 65 or disabled].
Jessica Hurtado, Florentino’s daughter, says her father remains to be recovering.
“Fractured cheek bone, his eye remains to be being examined and stiches in three completely different spots,” she mentioned.
She says her father was merely confused and will by no means have been attacked like this.
“We’re already coping with a number of Alzheimer’s, and anybody who has household coping with dementia is aware of it is quite a bit. So the truth that this needed to occur is simply unhappy. It is actually unhappy. My father didn’t deserve this in any respect.”
Though the state prompt a 1 million greenback bond, Choose Colleen Gaido set Lockridge’s bond at $50 thousand. A bond Jessica says is far too low.
“It is simply unhappy. It is actually unhappy, my father didn’t deserve this in any respect,” she mentioned. “We simply need justice for my dad. That is all we would like.”
Based on courtroom information, Lockridge does not have a felony historical past. Data present that Stephens has a prolonged felony historical past, together with theft and assault costs relationship again to 2009.
Stephens has but to seem in courtroom for his bond to be set.
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