‘Don’t Feel Like It’s Safe Anymore’: Man With Autism Brutally Attacked From Behind In South Sacramento

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A brutal transgression successful South Sacramento was caught connected video, which shows a antheral with autism being attacked from behind.

For decades, Stephen Chapman, amended known arsenic “Stevo,” has had the aforesaid routine: Get disconnected enactment astatine UC Davis Medical Center astatine 1 p.m., instrumentality the 51 autobus and locomotion a mates of blocks home.

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“He has a precise strict regular that’s besides due to the fact that of his autism,” explained Tina Chapman, Stephen’s sister-in-law. “Everything is done astatine a definite clip each day.”

Wednesday, his docket was interrupted portion helium was walking adjacent Stockton Boulevard and Fruitridge Road. Video of the onslaught shows a idiosyncratic dressed successful each achromatic moving up down Stephen and hitting him successful the head, knocking him down to the ground.

“His caput virtually bounced disconnected the sidewalk,” Tina said.

As Stephen struggled to get up, the attacker punched him for the 2nd time.

“I didn’t cognize what to think. The archetypal happening I thought is ‘Why, wherefore would idiosyncratic bash this to him?” questioned Tina.

The dashcam video ends erstwhile Maria Valencia gets retired of her car to measurement in.

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“The archetypal time, you are successful shock, and she went aft him a 2nd clip and that’s erstwhile I said ‘Hey, hey, no, no, stop’ and she came astatine me,” she said.

Maria believes the attacker was a woman. The idiosyncratic yet walked distant arsenic witnesses called the police.

“You person to assistance radical that are helpless themselves. He didn’t fight,” said Maria.

The beating near the 53-year-old achromatic and blue, with bruises to some of his eyes, a lump connected his caput and a mates of cuts to his face.

Stephen said helium is acrophobic to locomotion location unsocial aft the beating.

“He has the aforesaid question why, wherefore did this hap to maine and I don’t cognize what to archer him. what bash I accidental to him? He doesn’t comprehend that radical are atrocious due to the fact that helium is simply a bully spirit,” Tina explained.

Stephen’s household plans to thrust him to and from enactment successful the future.

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“I conscionable don’t consciousness similar it’s harmless anymore for him to beryllium retired there,” Tina said.

Velena Jones