Update: Elderly Asian-American Woman Who Fought Her Attacker Back Talks About Terrifying Assault In San Francisco
In a heartbreaking interview with KPIX, the elderly Asian-American woman who was randomly attacked by a white man is speaking out about the recent attack.
Xiao Zhen Xi, 76, was just waiting at the traffic light on Market St. in San Francisco Wednesday when the suspect punched her by her left eye. Although she was caught off guard, immediately, she went into defense mode and hit the guy with a stick that she found. While she suffered injuries that required medical attention, it was her attacker that ended up on the stretcher. In the video, the alleged assailant is handcuffed to a stretcher with his face bloodied. A sobbing Xie can be heard saying, “You bum, why did you hit me?” she said to the man on the stretcher in Cantonese.
While speaking to the news outlet from her senior retirement home in San Francisco, with her daughter Dong-Mei Li by her side, translating her story, Xie’s cries as she tries to detail more from the startling incident. “Very traumatized, very scared and this eye is still bleeding,” Li told KPIX 5. “The right eye still cannot see anything and still bleeding and we have something to absorb the bleeding.” Li said her mother cannot see at all out of her left eye and hasn’t even been able to eat. She added that the incident has left her mother completely scared for her life. Xie’s family has set up a GoFundMe account to help with her medical expenses.
Police did not disclose a motive for the attack and said it was not clear whether the victim’s race had anything to do with the assault… However, officers also say there was a second victim Wednesday morning, an 83-year-old Asian man.
A 39-year-old man is now being investigated for both attacks, and police say they are working to determine if bias was a factor.
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