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A WARNING, THESE PICTURES ARE GRAPHIC. YOU CAN SEE A FOOTPRINT PRESSED INTO THE BACK OF THE 21-YEAR-OLD MAN ATTACKED SATURDAY NIGH POLICE SAY ALL THESE CUTS AND BRUISES CAME FROM A GROUP OF NEARLY 20 MALE TEENS WHO KICKE AND BEAT HIM WHEN HE AND HIS 19-YEAR-OLD GIRLFRIEND WERE WALKING IN THIS PART OF THE DOWNTOWN SKYWALK. WE TALKED TO A WITNESS VISITING FROM CHICAGO WHO SAW PART WHAT HAPPENED. >> WERE JUST WHALING ON HIM. THE VICTIM FELL TO THE GROUND AND THEY BEGAN TO KICK HIM AND STRIKE HIM. ALEX: KYLE DECKER TRIED TO G THE TEENS TO STOP. >> I THOUGHT IF I SHOUTED "CALL THE POLICE," THEY WOULD DISPERSE. LIKE THEY WOULD KNOW THAT THEY -- THE POLICE WERE ON THEIR WAY AND THEY WOULD STOP WHALING ON THIS KID. ' ’CAUSE THERE’S 20 OF ’EM GANGING UP ON ONE GUY. THEY COULD KILL THIS KID. THIS GUY THEY HAVE ON THE GROUND FOR ALL I KNOW ALEX: POLICE SAY THIS STARTED WHEN THE TWO VICTIMS WALKED BY THE GROUP OF TEENS SITTING OUTSIDE THE WELLMARK YMCA ENTRANCE. >> THEY CAME ACROSS THE GROUP OF TEENS WHO KIND OF JUST SEEMED TO BE HANGING OUT, BUT SOMETHING DIDN’T LOOK QUITE RIGHT. AND SHE SIMPLY ASKED THEM, IS EVERYTHING OK, GUY AND THEY RESPONDED IN A VIOLENT FASHIO ALEX: DECKER SAID THEY PINNED THE YOUNG MAN AGAINST THE GLASS, FACING THE YMCA. HE RAN TO CHECK ON HIS WIFE, BUT WHEN HE RETURNED, THE GROUP OF TEENS WAS GONE AND THE VICTIM BLEEDING WAS ON THE GROUND. >> I SAW A YOUNG MAN ON THE GROUND. HIS GIRLFRIEND WAS SITTING NEXT TO

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Des Moines police said a group of nearly 20 teenage boys were involved in the assault of a young couple in the downtown skywalk.Police said said the assault began when the 19-year-old woman and 21-year-old man walked past the group of teens sitting outside the Wellmark YMCA entrance."They came across the group of teens who kind of just seemed to be hanging out, but something didn't look quite right,” Des Moines police Sgt. Paul Parizek said. “(The woman) simply asked them, ‘Is everything okay guys?’ and they responded in a violent fashion."Kyle Decker, a Chicago resident who witnessed the assault while visiting Des Moines, said he hoped yelling for police would end the violence. "I thought if I shouted, 'Call the police!’ they would disperse, like they would know that they police were on their way and they would stop whaling on this kid,” Decker said. “Cause there's 20 of 'em ganging up on one guy. They could kill this kid. This guy they have on the ground for all I know."Decker said the teens pinned the man against the glass facing the YMCA. He ran to check on his own wife and when he returned, the group of teens was gone and the man was bleeding on the ground."I saw a young man laid out on the ground,” Decker said. “His girlfriend was sitting next to him, crying. She was on the phone with police at that point herself."Decker said he stayed with the couple until police arrived. Authorities said the investigation is ongoing and that they hope to file charges soon.