The Brief
- The Incident: An 11-year-old girl said she was repeatedly punched, stomped on, and dragged to the ground outside the Northgate Mall in San Rafael on Saturday afternoon.
- The Suspect: San Rafael Police confirmed the alleged attacker is also an 11-year-old girl. She was taken into custody but later released to her mother.
- The Catalyst: The victim and a friend said the confrontation began inside the mall food court after the suspect repeatedly sprayed them with air freshener.
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. – A Marin County father is speaking out and calling for parental action after his 11-year-old daughter was allegedly attacked with an air freshener bottle by an acquaintance of the same age outside a mall over the weekend.
The incident, which was captured on video, has prompted the family to sound the alarm on what they describe as a disturbing rise in youth violence and toxic social media trends in the North Bay.
A father’s warning
What they’re saying:
“This isn’t the Marin County I grew up in,” the girl’s father, Brett Adams said on Monday.
A trip to the mall
Adams thought he was just giving his 11-year-old daughter, Brooke-Lynn, and her friend a fun afternoon out when he dropped them off at the Northgate Mall in San Rafael around 2 p.m. on Saturday.…