Shortly after midnight on October 30, a Danish tourist was standing on a busy, well-lit sidewalk near the Venice Beach boardwalk when a man snatched something from his hand and another man punched him in the face so hard that he fell to the ground.
The assault near the Speedway and Washington Boulevard was caught on video and left the unidentified tourist unconscious, with a laceration to the right side of his head, according to the Los Angeles Police Department, which released footage of the incident over the weekend.
On Friday evening, one of the suspects, Aiden Shaw, 25, turned himself in at the LAPD’s Pacific Community Police Station, said Officer Rosario Cervantes, a department spokeswoman.
The LAPD’s Pacific Division said in a statement Monday afternoon that Shaw, of Turlock, was booked into the Van Nuys Jail on suspicion of aggravated battery with serious bodily injury. His bond was set at $50,000.
Police are still searching for the other suspect.
The LAPD released footage of the attack over the weekend.
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The LAPD said in a statement Saturday that the attack happened around 12:35 a.m. and that the Danish man was treated by paramedics at the scene and transported to a hospital, where he was treated for “serious injuries.”
Surveillance footage shows the victim standing near a street pole, looking at what appears to be a cell phone, when a man wearing a blue beanie hits the left side of his head, then knocks something out of his hand and steps on it when the man goes to pick it up.
The footage also shows the Danish man standing near an overflowing trash can on the busy sidewalk near the promenade — surrounded by bright green rental bikes, with several people standing nearby and walking past — when the man in the blue hat and a second man in the black Los Angeles Dodgers hat approach.
The second man punches him in the face, knocking him to the ground.
Los Angeles City Council member Traci Park, who represents Venice, wrote in a social media post Saturday that the man who threw the punch had been arrested.
“In an act of lawless violence, an innocent tourist was attacked by two men and left unconscious on the Venice Pier on October 30,” Park wrote, adding that “as leadership changes at City Hall, it is another important reminder that public safety must remain a top priority.”
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