6-Year-Old Girl Attacked by Homeless Man in Santa Monica

Published on March 14, 2024

Police are still looking for the man who attacked a 6-year-old girl in the face while she was walking with her parents in Santa Monica March 10. The girl and her family, who were visiting from the East Coast, were walking with a friend down Main Street chatting and eating ice cream about 7 p.m. Sunday when the attack occurred, according to the friend, Christina Tullock, of Venice. “We walked by the bus stop … and he reached out and punched her,” Ms. Tullock told California Insider. “It happened so quickly.” The disheveled and wild-eyed man was sitting on a bench with garbage thrown all around him and appeared to be on drugs or having a mental breakdown, she added....

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