A man is recovering after being brutally attacked and robbed earlier this month in downtown Los Angeles by a mob of young people on bicycles.  

The Aug. 2 assault, according to the victim, Shailoobek Bazarbai Uulu, happened while he was stopped at a redlight at the intersection of Olympic Boulevard and Hope Street.  

Uulu said a group of teens on bicycles pulled in front of his vehicle and when the light turned green, he attempted to pass them.  

“When I was passing, one of them threw a bottle of water in my car,” he explained. “So, I don’t know what happened.”  

As he pulled over and got out of his car, he said the group of roughly 30 teens surrounded him, with the situation turning violent very quickly.  

Footage of the incident was captured by a witness who happened to walk up on the mob as they assaulted Uulu, stole items, including his backpack and wallet, out of the vehicle, shattered the windows and stomped on the hood and trunk of his car.  

“This is what L.A. has come to,” the man filming the incident can be heard saying. “Dog, I’m not even playing. I literally just parked. These kids are wild, not older than 20.”  

In the video, Uulu is seen barefoot, limping as he’s pushed and punched in the back of the head by several of the teens.  

He sustained a broken leg, along with deep cuts and lacerations all over his body after getting kicked and punched while on the ground. The injury to his leg, he said, will require surgery.

“Suddenly, someone pulled me out and she literally saved my life,” he told KTLA’s Carlos Saucedo. “It was a young lady, take me aside and hug me.”  

At least a few adults, including the man filming the incident, are seen in the video attempting to stop the attack and get the teens to leave the area where traffic was backed up as a result of the violent brawl.  

Uulu said he’d been planning on moving, which is why many of his belongings were in his car, much of which is now gone, including documents, cash and credit cards.  

The victim insists he did nothing to provoke the attack, but in the video, one of the teens can be heard telling the man filming that Uulu cut them off with his car, nearly hitting them.

When the police did arrive, the teens had all fled the area. The victim was then taken to the hospital where he learned the extent of his injuries.  

“It’s a been a week and no one has been arrested,” he said. “They stole my bank cards, and they even tried to use it a few days later.”  

In addition to the lost property, his vehicle was badly damaged, with Uulu saying it was estimated to be $20,000 worth of repairs needed.  

“I am alone here and never thought that I could find myself in such a situation,” he said.  

A GoFundMe has been organized to help him recover from the losses.  

Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact LAPD’s Central Station 213-486-6606. Those wishing to remain anonymous can call the L.A. Regional Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-222-8477 or leave tips online at www.lacrimestoppers.org.  

A motorist who crashed into an Orange County home over the weekend was rushed to the hospital after the collision knocked loose a hive of bees that attacked the driver, officials announced Saturday.  

Details are extremely limited and it’s unclear exactly how the driver ended up crashing into the home, but officers with the Buena Park Police Department responded to the Aug. 10 collision just after 12 p.m., according to a BPPD Instagram post.  

In video of the crash aftermath, bees can be seen buzzing over the vehicle’s frontend, which collided with the corner of the home, taking out a window in the process.  

“Nobody was injured in as a result of the collision, but a beehive was also damaged and the occupants were not pleased,” police said in the social media post. “They savagely attacked the driver.” 

Medical personnel with the Orange County Fire Authority responded and took the driver to the hospital to be treated for multiple stings.  

Firefighters “cooled the bees off” by spraying water and soap over the vehicle and the hive, authorities said.  

“So, the driver destroyed 2 homes,” Instagram user @smilingjoce commented on the post. 

It is unclear if anyone was inside the home when the motorist crashed into it or if the driver will be facing any charges related to the incident.  

A star U.S. gymnast participated in one of the more memorable moments in the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, when she won bronze in the women’s floor exercise, stepping out of the shadow of her teammates and earning an individual medal for the first time in her career.

Now, due to a technicality, that moment has been erased.

Days after U.S. and UCLA gymnast Jordan Chiles received her medal, the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that an appeal made by Chile’s coach, which boosted her score enough to lift her from fifth to third in the event, came four seconds later than allowed in the sport of gymnastics.

Coaches are given a one-minute period to appeal any scoring decision after scores are announced.

The decision means that Chiles must give up her bronze to Romanian Ana Barbosu.

“We firmly believe that Jordan rightfully earned the bronze medal, and there were critical errors in both the initial scoring by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) and the subsequent CAS appeal process that need to be addressed,” the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee statement said.

The U.S. committee argues that Chiles’ score that netted her third place in the competition was the correct score, and it was an error by the officials that prompted the now-void appeal in the first place.

In the next steps, the U.S. plans to appeal the decision, which is likely to send the case back to court.

“The initial error occurred in the scoring by FIG, and the second error was during the CAS appeal process, where the USOPC was not given adequate time or notice to effectively challenge the decision,” said the USOPC statement, which was released Sunday.

Chiles, who earned a gold medal as a member of the U.S. women’s gymnastics squad in the team event, took place in the medal ceremony with superstar teammate Simone Biles, who earned silver. The Oregon native currently attends and competes for UCLA.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.