Two separate attacks over the last week in beach towns on Florida’s east coast left victims with severe injuries. ‘Totally gashed open’In Daytona Beach, a teen’s throat was slashed while his family was walking on Ocean Avenue near the boardwalk. “We are so lucky our son’s alive. The doctor said if it would have been one millimeter deeper, we’d probably be having a different conversation,” said Jerod Clarke, the boy’s father.The teen received 13 stitches.“It was crazy. I mean, I saw my son’s neck totally gashed open. I could see the meat in his neck. It was crazy,” Jerod Clarke said.’Grabbed around the throat’In Martin County, a woman was walking on Tiger Shores Beach around 11 p.m. when she was hit and dragged into the ocean. Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek said the woman’s husband called 911 and told the dispatcher his wife had been talking on the phone with her sister when she started screaming.”Her sister said it sounded like she was fighting with someone. And then the phone went dead,” the husband said. “They’ve been calling her for the past five minutes. She’s not responding.”Budensiek said the woman was hit, grabbed around the throat, dragged into the ocean and then held down as she struggled to break free.Deputies found the woman on the beach “wet with bruising on the side of her neck, bruising on the side of her face, and they started trying to piece together what had taken place.” The suspect, identified as Said Alexander Hernandez Gonzalez, was arrested Sunday while threatening to kill himself.

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Two separate attacks over the last week in beach towns on Florida’s east coast left victims with severe injuries.

‘Totally gashed open’

In Daytona Beach, a teen’s throat was slashed while his family was walking on Ocean Avenue near the boardwalk.

“We are so lucky our son’s alive. The doctor said if it would have been one millimeter deeper, we’d probably be having a different conversation,” said Jerod Clarke, the boy’s father.

The teen received 13 stitches.

“It was crazy. I mean, I saw my son’s neck totally gashed open. I could see the meat in his neck. It was crazy,” Jerod Clarke said.

‘Grabbed around the throat’

In Martin County, a woman was walking on Tiger Shores Beach around 11 p.m. when she was hit and dragged into the ocean.

Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek said the woman’s husband called 911 and told the dispatcher his wife had been talking on the phone with her sister when she started screaming.

“Her sister said it sounded like she was fighting with someone. And then the phone went dead,” the husband said. “They’ve been calling her for the past five minutes. She’s not responding.”

Budensiek said the woman was hit, grabbed around the throat, dragged into the ocean and then held down as she struggled to break free.

Deputies found the woman on the beach “wet with bruising on the side of her neck, bruising on the side of her face, and they started trying to piece together what had taken place.”

The suspect, identified as Said Alexander Hernandez Gonzalez, was arrested Sunday while threatening to kill himself.

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