Video shows a man stomp on teen’s bike after authorities said he knocked the boy off the bike and punched him in a frightening attack in Santa Clarita.
The ambush was reported Wednesday along the San Francisquito Trail. The man, seen on video recorded by the teen, also slashed the boy’s bike tires with a knife, the sheriff’s department said.
The attack unfolded after the teen and a friend encountered the man, who was biking the opposite way on the trail, in the darkness. Lalania Bidwell, the teen’s mother, said the friend swerved to avoid the man, whose bike had no reflective equipment.
The teens continued on the path toward a street when her son stopped to remove a twig from his wheel, she said. That’s when the man attacked without warning.
The boy said the man, still armed with the knife used to deflate his bike tires, knocked him to the ground, punched and kicked him. He said his bike helmet was damaged in the attack. Video showed the helmet with a damaged visor and several scuff marks.
“He was hitting me with the under-part of his hand, screaming at me, spitting in my face, saying he was going to kill me,” the teen said. “I could see the knife in his hand while he was hitting me. I feared for my life.”
The teen eventually got away from the man and began recording video of him stomping on his bike. The teen can be seen in the video waving his hands as he desperately called to drivers for help.
“He’s screaming for help. In the street, waving cars down because no one had helped,” Bidwell said. “I could hear the fear. I’m heartbroken for him.”
Eventually, a driver stopped to help and the man left the scene on an orange bike. He was last seen biking into an industrial area.
The teen went to the hospital to be checked for possible injuries.
Bidwell was asked what she would say to the attacker.
“I would ask just why? Why are you so angry? Why do that?”
Anyone with information about the attack was asked to call detectives at 661-260-4000 Ext. 5625.
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