71-Year-Old Man with a Brain Tumor Gets Violently Attacked While Walking His Dog

A 71-year-old man in Arizona, who has been living with a brain tumor diagnosis for 16 years, is recovering after a violent assault that nearly killed him — and his daughter says he’s alive today because two strangers intervened.

JeffZimmerman was walking the family dog in his Phoenix neighborhood on Dec. 13 when a person riding a bicycle approached him and began beating him, his daughter, Kiera, told AZFamily.

Kiera said the attacker knocked her father to the ground and continued the assault, leaving him critically injured. She told the outlet that two passersby happened to be nearby and physically pulled the suspect off her dad…

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