A woman’s mother spoke out after police said her adult daughter was intentionally hit by a car, run over and violently beaten by a man as she lay helpless.
The woman survived and a suspect was arrested on suspicion of committing the brutal attack.
“For somebody to do something so imaginable to my child, it’s devastating,” said the victim’s mother, Kellie, who declined to be publicly identified by her last name.
The injured woman, a 32-year-old Orange County resident, on Wednesday remained hospitalized in critical but stable.
In an interview with ABC7, Sgt. Nick Jensen of the Garden Grove Police Department described the attack.
“After the vehicle goes over the victim, the vehicle gets stuck, in the parking lot, on a planter or something of that nature,” the sergeant said. “The suspect then returns and physically assaults the female victim, who is down on the ground.”
The attack happened shortly before 3 a.m. on Dec. 10. Police responded to calls for help at the scene on Brookhurst Street, south of Chapman Avenue.