mother and her son were attacked <\/a>in Fort Lauderdale by a stranger who’s still wanted in the assault.<\/p>\nAccording to Fort Lauderdale Police, on Tuesday, at around 7:30 a.m., the mother and her 12-year-old son were walking in the 1000 block of Northwest 5th Avenue.<\/p>\n
Surveillance video shows the suspect walking up to the two and then appears to hit them with a blunt object. <\/p>\n
The suspect then fled the area. He was seen wearing a red shirt and shorts.<\/p>\n
Police said that the 12-year-old had an abrasion to his face, and his mother had a laceration to the back of her head.<\/p>\n
They were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and have since been released. <\/p>\n
Before the arrest, NBC6 spoke with the mother, who said she had just moved into the neighborhood the previous Friday.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA mother recalls what she says was a random attack by a stranger in Fort Lauderdale. She and her son who has autism were injured in the incident.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want this guy to get caught,” Chrissy said. ‘You can\u2019t attack a child, especially a kid who\u2019s 12 years old and a woman, and get away with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chrissy didn’t reveal her last name, but said her son has autism, is non-verbal, and the man who attacked them was a stranger who suddenly took a swing at her son with a cane or a bat.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter that, I\u2019m like, ‘What the hell?’ and I pushed him away, and he tried to go back for him, and that\u2019s when I got hit on my side,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Chrissy said the attack was random.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The suspect in the attack on a woman and her 12-year-old son earlier this week in Fort Lauderdale…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1009,249,251,250],"class_list":["post-336427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-caught-on-camera","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336427","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=336427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}