Colin Flaherty (Author of Don't Make the Black Kids Angry) Commentary News Video "Police looking for suspect who attacked 14-year-old walking home from school" Black woman punches white lady on the street "Four arrests made in Un…

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Colin Flaherty (Author of Don't Make the Black Kids Angry) Commentary News Video "Police looking for suspect who attacked 14-year-old walking home from school" Black woman punches white lady on the street "Four arrests made in University Park shooting, robbery"

https://www.abc15.com/news/region-west-valley/laveen/police-looking-for-suspect-who-attacked-14-year-old-walking-home-from-school

Posted: 4:54 PM, Dec 18, 2018 Updated: 7:00 AM, Dec 19, 2018

By: John Genovese

PHOENIX — Phoenix police are searching for a man who attacked a 14-year-old boy walking home from school Monday after getting off a Valley Metro bus.

That boy, Richard Orona, told ABC15 he’d been talking with the suspect, a stranger, on the bus minutes before the attack near 75th Avenue and Baseline Road.

“[He] started making conversation with me,” Orona said. “I saw he had a Gucci belt … I asked him how much he would sell it to me for, he said $150, I said, ‘Oh, I only got $100,’” he added, believing he was targeted because the suspect knew he had cash.

Orona said after sensing the man was acting strange, he got off the bus two stops early. Moments later, he was attacked.

“I saw someone, like, running toward me and then I didn’t think nothing of it ‘cause he turned into a neighborhood,” the teen said. “I think that he cut into the neighborhood and came out the back and, as I turned around, I just get kneed in the face.”

http://www.fox4news.com/news/four-arrests-made-in-university-park-shooting-robbery

POSTED: DEC 17 2018 09:40PM CST

VIDEO POSTED: DEC 17 2018 09:49PM CST

UPDATED: DEC 17 2018 09:51PM CST

Police arrested four people they say shot a man in his University Park home and robbed him.

Police say the suspects used the victim's credit cards. The victim is still in critical condition from the attack.

Four suspects are in custody, but there are a lot of unanswered questions in a neighborhood where armed robbery is almost unheard of.

Calvin Johnson's priors include multiple theft charges, larceny and burglary. Quintariah Alexander is another with multiple theft and burglary charges. Abdul Sesay has done jail time for at least three theft charges. Police say they were all captured largely because they used credit cards from the victim's stolen wallet.

"I've lived here for almost four years now and I've never heard of anything like that happening,” said neighbor Sullivan Tankersley.

Police seem certain the victim did not know his attackers but that he let them in the front door.