Hollywood Man Assaulted While Attacker Screams, “Die, F****t, Die!”

metroweekly.com:

Police in West Hollywood are searching for a man who assaulted another while man yelling anti-gay slurs. He is also believed to have assaulted other individuals in the area.The victim of the anti-gay assault, David Velasquez, told the WeHo Times that, on Sunday, March 17, he was coming back from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he had been treated earlier in the day for severe cold and flu symptoms.He stopped by the Pavilions in WeHo to pick up medication and was riding his personal scooter home when the altercation occurred.Velasquez noted that he was riding on the sidewalk to avoid being hit by potentially drunk drivers as he made his way through West Hollywood on a particularly raucous St.

Patrick’s Day. “I was right three in front of the Tender Greens — the one on Santa Monica and Hancock — and then…I was passing by this random guy, and he just like out of nowhere slapped me with his left hand and smacked my helmet off, smacked me in the face,” Velasquez told the newspaper.Velasquez confronted the man, asking him what his problem was.

Following a back-and-forth argument, the man wrestled him to the ground and began hitting him, trying to throw his phone in the street.“He’s bashing my head and has his knee on top of my chest, trying to smash my head into the street,” Velasquez recalled. “‘Die, f****t, die,’ he kept saying.”Velasquez said his attacker stopped after a man who jumped out of a Chevy Suburban intervened.

Velasquez managed to escape and run down Hancock Avenue.Afterwards, Velasquez was approached by a Black girl, accompanied by two Latina women, who claimed to have been slapped without provocation by the same man.