{"id":158614,"date":"2026-02-17T17:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/158614\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:36:06","slug":"violent-unprovoked-attacks-reported-at-2-florida-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/158614\/","title":{"rendered":"Violent, unprovoked attacks reported at 2 Florida beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTwo separate attacks over the last week in beach towns on Florida&#8217;s east coast left victims with severe injuries. &#8216;Totally gashed open&#8217;In Daytona Beach, a teen&#8217;s throat was slashed while his family was walking on Ocean Avenue near the boardwalk. \u201cWe are so lucky our son&#8217;s alive. The doctor said if it would have been one millimeter deeper, we&#8217;d probably be having a different conversation,\u201d said Jerod Clarke, the boy\u2019s father.The teen received 13 stitches.\u201cIt was crazy. I mean, I saw my son&#8217;s neck totally gashed open. I could see the meat in his neck. It was crazy,\u201d Jerod Clarke said.&#8217;Grabbed around the throat&#8217;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&#8217;s husband called 911 and told the dispatcher his wife had been talking on the phone with her sister when she started screaming.&#8221;Her sister said it sounded like she was fighting with someone. And then the phone went dead,&#8221; the husband said. &#8220;They&#8217;ve been calling her for the past five minutes. She&#8217;s not responding.&#8221;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 &#8220;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.&#8221; The suspect, identified as Said Alexander Hernandez Gonzalez, was arrested Sunday while threatening to kill himself.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Two separate attacks over the last week in beach towns on Florida&#8217;s east coast left victims with severe injuries. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Totally gashed open&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>In Daytona Beach, a teen&#8217;s throat was slashed while his family was walking on Ocean Avenue near the boardwalk. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are so lucky our son&#8217;s alive. The doctor said if it would have been one millimeter deeper, we&#8217;d probably be having a different conversation,\u201d said Jerod Clarke, the boy\u2019s father.<\/p>\n<p>The teen received 13 stitches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was crazy. I mean, I saw my son&#8217;s neck totally gashed open. I could see the meat in his neck. It was crazy,\u201d Jerod Clarke said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Grabbed around the throat&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>In Martin County, a woman was walking on Tiger Shores Beach around 11 p.m. when she was hit and dragged into the ocean. <\/p>\n<p>Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek said the woman&#8217;s husband called 911 and told the dispatcher his wife had been talking on the phone with her sister when she started screaming.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Her sister said it sounded like she was fighting with someone. And then the phone went dead,&#8221; the husband said. &#8220;They&#8217;ve been calling her for the past five minutes. She&#8217;s not responding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Budensiek said the woman was hit, grabbed around the throat, dragged into the ocean and then held down as she struggled to break free.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies found the woman on the beach &#8220;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.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The suspect, identified as Said Alexander Hernandez Gonzalez, was arrested Sunday while threatening to kill himself.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis content is imported from Facebook.<br \/>\n\tYou may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two separate attacks over the last week in beach towns on Florida&#8217;s east coast left victims with severe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75988,8321,28,7734,30,29,3324,75989,18774,39902,75987,4428,12160,61664,1960,1953,75990,192],"class_list":{"0":"post-158614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-beach-town","9":"tag-east-coast","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-beach","12":"tag-florida-headlines","13":"tag-florida-news","14":"tag-husband","15":"tag-jerod-clarke","16":"tag-last-week","17":"tag-neck","18":"tag-ocean-avenue","19":"tag-phone","20":"tag-side","21":"tag-sister","22":"tag-son","23":"tag-teen","24":"tag-throat","25":"tag-woman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}