EXCLUSIVE: Mom of 6-month-old may lose vision in eye after couple attacked by women on scooter in SF

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — It was just a few seconds that modified the lives of Matt and his spouse perpetually. On Sunday, the couple was out for stroll on 18th Avenue between Church and Dolores at round 4 p.m. once they had been attacked by two girls on a motorized scooter.

“As we had been strolling previous the bus cease, impulsively we hear ‘Get the F out of our means,’” Matt stated.

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Matt says the couple, who’ve a 6-month-old youngster, rotated solely to be immediately facet swiped by two girls driving on a motorized scooter.

He tells me after the collision, one of many girls threw the scooter to the facet and commenced attacking him.

“Closed fist punching me within the head and neck,” Matt stated.

Following the primary few blows, Matt’s spouse, who requested us to not title her, tried to intervene pleading with the attacker to cease.

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“And at that time, the second feminine that was on the scooter grabs her by the hair and begins punching her within the face repeatedly winding up,” Matt stated.

Ultimately, others close by intervened separating Matt and his spouse from the 2 girls.

It was then that Matt was in a position to name 911, because the attackers fled the scene.

However the injury had already been achieved. Particularly to Matt’s spouse, whose blood nonetheless stains the sidewalk the place the incident occurred days later.

“She had a CAT scan and has an orbital fracture, principally a fracture in her eye. She is liable to probably shedding her imaginative and prescient. She could need to have surgical procedure on her eye,” Matt stated.

The expertise has left the couple traumatized. Not least of all, as a result of this is not the primary time they are saying their household has been the sufferer of a criminal offense in San Francisco.

“I have already got an appointment to talk with a PTSD counselor as a result of my son and I had been assaulted on a Muni bus two weeks in the past,” Matt stated.

Within the aftermath, the household is looking on metropolis leaders to do extra to fight crime and enhance public security. They are saying, after many years of dwelling within the metropolis, they’re contemplating shifting away.

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“All of our elected officers want to acknowledge that it is a state of affairs that’s now uncontrolled. Residents in San Francisco do not feel secure,” Matt stated.

However for now, they’re engaged on therapeutic. Not simply the bodily, but additionally the psychological trauma.

“I went out for a stroll as we speak for 20 minutes and wanted to return dwelling, simply because being out is such a annoying factor,” Matt stated.

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