Authorities are looking for two robbery suspects after they say a 70-year-old man was beaten with his own cane last month.
The Houston Police Department released surveillance video showing the Sept. 22 incident in front of a cell phone store in the 8700 block of Tidwell Road.
At about 3:45 p.m., police said two suspects approached the victim. One of them allegedly punched the man in the face, causing him to fall.
One of the suspects can then be seen on video forcing the cane out of the victim’s hands and beating him with it.
“They kept kicking me, so I saw my cane. I got my cane to try to move them out. And the rubber part of my cane came out, and that’s when they get the cane and start hitting me with it,” the victim, Thomas Shelby, said in an interview only on ABC13. “The guy with the mask hits me in the eye with the cane.
HPD says the suspects took the man’s cell phone, cash, and cigarettes before running off.
“They said, ‘Man, you owe us $25, you know?’ And I said, ‘Man, I’ve never seen either one of you before in my life,'” Shelby said. “While he’s talking to me, the other guy comes around the security guard and hits me and knocks me down, and they start kicking me and stomping.”