Police say random, violent attacks by unhoused residents are on the rise
LOS ANGELES (KCAL/KCBS) As the population of unhoused people continues to grow across the Southland, so too is the number of violent crimes.
“He was just tired of being asked to leave, so he came randomly one day, charging at me with a, I don’t know, a six-foot hard plastic guitar,” Jeffrey Hicks, a victim, said.
It was an attack Hicks, who owns a laundromat in Valley Village, said he saw coming.
“I was so intent on making sure he didn’t hit me over the head that my first reaction was to defend myself,” he said.
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Police say random, violent attacks by unhoused residents are on the rise
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