A woman was attacked and injured by a suspected homeless man in the Beverly Grove neighborhood of Los Angeles last month.
As detailed by WeHo Online, the woman posted to social media that she was attacked on June 24 near the intersection of Melrose Avenue and Crescent Heights Boulevard while walking her dog, Bijou.
WeHo Online did not identify the victim, but when speaking with KTLA’s Kimberly Cheng, the woman, Sigal Engelberg, chose to go public with her story.
Engelberg was on Melrose just after 4:30 p.m. that day — “broad daylight” — when the attacker, whom she describes as a 6-foot-tall Black man, approached her from behind and left her with a black eye and multiple lacerations.
Surveillance video from a nearby business shows the man crossing the street diagonally behind Engelberg immediately before the attack.
She said after he hit her and knocked her to the ground, he fled, and he remains on the loose.
“He attacked a woman half his size completely unprovoked,” Engelberg wrote. “I didn’t even look at him. He’s deranged and dangerous. I will not rest until he’s in jail.”
The Los Angeles Police Department “didn’t even come” after she reported the attack, she said, so she filed a report with the West Hollywood Sheriff’s Station.
“I am really worried about how many women he will harm before he’s caught,” Engelberg added.