Disturbing video shows a mob of teen e-bikers brutally beating a random stranger as he walked home through an affluent California neighborhood — then taking a photo, thinking he was dead.
The victim, only identified as a man in his 60s, was walking home in Hermosa Beach, California, late Friday when a group of about six thugs surrounded him, with one asking for the pizza he was carrying, surveillance footage shows.
As he responded, the others closed in and began punching, kicking and stomping him on the ground — with one bashing him over the head with his pizza box, the footage shows.
The attackers then fled on their e-bikes, with some saying they assumed their victim was dead — but with one snapping a photo of him anyway, according to KTLA.
Moments before the attack, the teens were overheard plotting to attack a random stranger, wtiness Matt Terrill told Fox 11.
“They met up here five minutes before and were talking about doing something. They wanted to ‘get someone,’” Terrill said.
The victim, who was not otherwise identified, was rushed to a local hospital, but has since been discharged, according to the Hermosa Beach Police Department.
No arrests have been made, and police have not given a motive.
Locals say gangs riding e-bikes have long been a source of “a lot of trouble.”
“These kids are noted for constant trouble,” Geoff Van Sickle, who owns Strand Electric Bike Company in Hermosa Beach, told KTLA. “They run in packs of five to six bikes at a time,” he said, adding the electric dirtbikes the kids ride are not street-legal.
Another local resident, Hart Cardozo, 66, said he was ambushed by a group of teenagers in broad daylight last month, leaving him needing 14 staples in his head.
The group surrounded his car, slashed his tires and whacked him in the head in the “traumatizing” attack.
He came forward after seeing the latest attack, realizing that “enough is enough.”
“If this is going on in the community and you’re not talking about it, it needs to come out,” he told FOX 11.
“They need to be arrested,” Cardozo said. “And whatever parents are facilitating this mischief, they really don’t know what’s going on with their kids.”
The Hermosa Police Department said they are investigating both incidents.
