A retired Navy commander was brutally beaten, robbed, and left with a brain injury and at least 100 stitches after he was attacked while walking his dog near a Philadelphia park last week.
Scott Harris, 62, said he was walking his dog Nora around 11:30 p.m. Saturday when he came across a crowd gathered at a neighborhood park in the city’s Brewerytown neighborhood.
“There was a huge party going on across the street, behind me I probably shouldn’t have been walking near, and the next thing I remember, I was in the emergency room because I just blacked out after that,” Harris. told Fox 29.
Harris was attacked from behind by at least one person as he walked through the crowd, causing the man to pass out and steal his wallet, police said, according to NBC 10.
Harris was attacked from behind by at least one person as he walked through the crowd, causing the man to pass out and steal his wallet.Fox 29 Philadelphia / Scott Harris
Scott Harris, 62, said he was walking his dog Nora around 11:30 p.m. Saturday when he ran into a crowd gathered at a neighborhood park in the city’s Brewerytown neighborhood.Fox 29 Philadelphia
No information about the attacker has been released.
In her wallet, Harris lost her ID, several credit cards and personal mementos.
“Unfortunately, the only thing I really care about in that wallet is my mom’s driver’s license,” Harris told the outlet. “He died about 10 years ago. That’s how I kept him close and now I don’t have that.”
Doctors told Harris he had a brain injury, broken teeth, and facial swelling and bruising, along with numerous stitches, the outlet said. Fox 29 Philadelphia / Scott Harris
Harris has served several years on assignment overseas, but his visit went much better than his trip last weekend. Fox 29 Philadelphia
A security camera outside Harris’ apartment caught a group of good Samaritans walking Harris and Nora home after the attack, where her partner was waiting for her.
“They brought him back, otherwise I don’t know what would have happened,” Joseph Hurchick told Fox 29. “We were in the stands and he was just bleeding, I called 911, I didn’t know where the blood was coming from, I don’t know if he was stabbed.”
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“Thank God, you know, there are good people,” Harris told the outlet. “And maybe they mix with some not so good people. And they just saw a human being in need and brought me back safely.”
Harris was later treated at a local hospital, where he spent three days recovering from the attack.
Doctors told Harris he had a brain injury, broken teeth, and facial swelling and bruising, along with numerous stitches, the outlet said.
“The surgeon said he stopped counting a hundred stitches, but a lot of them were in my mouth.”
Harris has served several years in deployments overseas, but his visit went well compared to his trip last weekend.
“I was in a war zone for a year in Iraq, did two years in Ukraine, and would never have expected this to happen in my own neighborhood,” he said.
The retired commander had adopted Nora from Ukraine.
A security camera outside Harris’ apartment caught a group of good Samaritans walking Harris and Nora home after the attack, where her partner was waiting for her. Fox 29 Philadelphia / Scott Harris
Harris and Hurchick have complained to Philadelphia officials several times about large gatherings in Brewerytown Park, but nothing has been done about them. Fox 29 Philadelphia
Harris and Hurchick have complained to Philadelphia officials several times about large gatherings taking place at the park, but nothing has been done about it, according to the outlet.
“This is what happens when something goes unchecked, it could have been worse,” Hurchick said. “It will take one murder for this to stop.”
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Source: thtrangdai.edu.vn/en/
