Victim, witness says group of teenagers attacked a Lake Highlands man with “fists, feet and sticks.”
Police are looking for a several teenage boys who reportedly beat a Lake Highlands -area man who was walking home from the bus stop at Pandora Drive near McCree at about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Paul Graves, 43, told police that a group of black males ages 15-18 — all wearing white shirts, some carrying sticks — approached him. One of the suspects, a young man with a “Gumby style haircut,” broke away from the group and came up alongside Graves just before Graves felt a severe pain in the back of his head.
According to a police report, Graves says he fell to the ground and the other suspects jumped him, hitting and kicking his face “with sticks, fists and feet.” Graves says he felt them “rifling through his pockets” before he temporarily lost consciousness. Graves says he awoke in the street and the teenagers were gone.
Graves was treated at the scene for lacerations, a broken nose and swollen eyes; he refused transport to the hospital.
A witness, a woman who observed the incident and who attempted to assist Graves afterward, found Graves’ wallet near the crime site, but it was missing the $22 cash he had inside, according to the report. The man who first approached and reportedly initially hit Graves is described as black male, 5’11, 160 with a Gumby/ hi-top fade haircut.
