A Team USA Olympic medal winner says a man attacked her outside a Los Angeles restaurant, hurling a metal object at her and fracturing her eye socket.
Kim Glass, a 2008 volleyball silver medalist, posted a video to social media describing her ordeal. The footage shows her right eye swollen and bruised, with a line of stitches below her eyebrow.Glass said she was saying goodbye to a friend after lunch in downtown LA when she said a"homeless man" ran up.
Read MoreWhen asked for comment, the Los Angeles Police Department said only that officers responded to an assault with a deadly weapon call around 2:30 p.m. on July 8, after a woman was assaulted by a man with an unknown object."There were actually multiple citizens that were holding the suspect awaiting police response and he was taken into custody without incident," Officer Drake Madison, a spokesperson for the LAPD, said.Officers could not confirm that he was homeless.
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