Police report: Man ‘smashed’ 3-year-old’s face at store in Seven Hills

A Broadview Heights man is facing an assault charge after police said he attacked a 3-year-old boy inside a Meijer store in Seven Hills on Wednesday morning.

According to Seven Hills police, the 37-year-old suspect allegedly ran up behind the child around 10:30 a.m. and smashed the boy’s face into the spikes of a shopping cart.

Witnesses told officers he struck the boy’s face at least three times before the child’s mother and aunt grabbed their children and tried to escape through the store. They told police they were afraid for their lives…

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