A MAN IS ATTACKED WITH A BRICK WHILE PUTTING UP A YARD SALE SIGN IN ALBUQUERQUE’S NOB HILL. IT HAPPENED TO JOSEPH TORRES, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE CALLED 911 TO REPORT THE INCIDENT, BUT NO POLICE WERE SENT TO THE SCENE.
TORRES SAYS HE HEARD SOMEONE ONE RUNNING BEHIND HIM, THEN WAS HIT WITH A BRICK. HE TELLS KOB TV THE ATTACKER HIT HIM ALL OVER HIS BODY UNTIL A NEIGHBOR HELPED PULL HIM OFF TORRES. THE ATTACKER THAN RAN TOWARD TORRES’ WIFE AND CHILDREN, BUT KEPT RUNNING INSTEAD OF ATTACKING THEM.
TORRES WENT TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AND HAD TO HAVE CT SCAN. HE SAYS WHEN HE CALLED 242-COPS ABOUT THE LACK OF POLICE RESPONSE, HE WAS TOLD THERE WAS NO ONE TO SEND AT THE TIME.
