SAN JOSE — A San Jose woman says she is shaken and afraid to leave her home now after she was attacked by two people after she earlier asked their teenage son to maintain social distancing on a trail at Communications Hill over the weekend.

The victim posted an account of the attack on Nextdoor. She was not named in the post but San Jose police, which responded to the Saturday evening call, confirmed her report.

According to police and the woman, a resident of the Communications Hill neighborhood in central San Jose, she was running on a trail near Grassina Street around 7:30 p.m. when the incident unfolded.

“This teenage boy came running right behind me, then next to me, I asked him to keep his distance, he laughed and pushed me,” the woman wrote. “Almost tripped me.”

A few minutes later, she wrote, the teen approached her again, this time with a man who she said “called me names, spit on me, pushed me, purposely coughed on me and then hit me.” Police specified that she was hit with the man’s hat.

Then, she wrote, the man’s wife or girlfriend “smacked me in the back of the head and tried to grab my phone.”

She wrote that some bystanders saw what was happening, but kept walking by, and in at least one instance, laughed at the encounter.

“Now I’m scared to go running outside my own home,” she wrote.

San Jose police said in a statement that the attackers fled the area and have not been identified or located. The statement also said the victim “did not have visible injuries and did not seek medical attention at the scene.”

Residents in the neighborhood said people enforcing social distancing space on the trail has become common practice, and has usually been met with cooperation.

“People have asked, and we have given a thumbs up and a smile,” Amit Agrawal told ABC7, this news organization’s media partner.

“I think it’s more than reasonable to ask for distance,” resident Eric Aguila told the news station. “Especially at this time.”

The woman who was assaulted acknowledged that she was OK, but “shook up and scared.” She also extended empathy for her assailants while detailing her experience.

“This is what this pandemic is doing to people,” she wrote. “I am sure they are under a lot of stress, maybe lost their jobs or something which led them to act this way. Who knows.”

Anyone with information about the assault can contact Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at 408-947-7867 or at svcrimestoppers.org.