It’s a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. A man says he was beaten to the ground right outside the Kenwood Towne Centre Friday night after he was walking home from work. Now he’s trying to find out why this happened and where the other suspect is.Elliot Koop says he typically walks home from his job in the Kenwood Towne Centre, but on Friday, July 29 his routine stroll took a dangerous turn leaving him cut up and bruised. “I’m in shock and I’m like yeah these guys are attacking me,” Koop said. “I assume it was a punch, but I immediately turned around and I could see the guys right in my face with the fists up.”He says it all started after three men asked him for $1 and then to use his phone. Koop declined both requests. The next thing Koop knew, he was beaten to the ground. “I got welts up on the top of my head and the back. My face here is swollen and bruised. It’s really stiff in my neck along here as well,” Koop said. “ I got a few other minor things from hitting the ground.”According to a Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office police report, two 17-year-old males were caught and arrested shortly after the attack. A third unidentified person remains on the loose. Something Koop says is very unsettling.“I don’t want to let this bother me because I enjoy walking, especially at night,” Koop said. “Yesterday was my first day back to work since I took the bus. I don’t feel safe.”Koop says he did not go to the hospital for his injuries. WLWT reached out to the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office for comment and a spokesperson said it does not have any further information at this time beyond what’s in the incident report.
It’s a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
A man says he was beaten to the ground right outside the Kenwood Towne Centre Friday night after he was walking home from work. Now he’s trying to find out why this happened and where the other suspect is.
Elliot Koop says he typically walks home from his job in the Kenwood Towne Centre, but on Friday, July 29 his routine stroll took a dangerous turn leaving him cut up and bruised.
“I’m in shock and I’m like yeah these guys are attacking me,” Koop said. “I assume it was a punch, but I immediately turned around and I could see the guys right in my face with the fists up.”
He says it all started after three men asked him for $1 and then to use his phone. Koop declined both requests.
The next thing Koop knew, he was beaten to the ground.
“I got welts up on the top of my head and the back. My face here is swollen and bruised. It’s really stiff in my neck along here as well,” Koop said. “ I got a few other minor things from hitting the ground.”
According to a Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office police report, two 17-year-old males were caught and arrested shortly after the attack. A third unidentified person remains on the loose.
Something Koop says is very unsettling.
“I don’t want to let this bother me because I enjoy walking, especially at night,” Koop said. “Yesterday was my first day back to work since I took the bus. I don’t feel safe.”
Koop says he did not go to the hospital for his injuries.
WLWT reached out to the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office for comment and a spokesperson said it does not have any further information at this time beyond what’s in the incident report.
