A 17-year-old boy was struck several times with a baseball bat in Palo Alto after he defended his mother from crude sexual remarks made by two men.
The East Palo Alto teen and his mother were dropping off his sister at her place of work in the 2200 block of East Bayshore Road near Laura Lane on Sept. 26 at about 4 p.m. Two men standing in the driveway made sexual comments directed at the mother, Palo Alto police Agent Robert Parham said.
The teen and the men exchanged words and one of the men approached the victim with a bat and began striking him on the legs. The men are believed to have left in a vehicle, but no description was made available.
The teen was not hospitalized but had redness on his legs, including a bruised left knee, Parham said.
Palo Alto police are seeking the men for assault with a deadly weapon and the investigation is continuing, Parham said. The men are described as Hispanic, both 5 feet 6 inches tall. One is in his 40s and the other is in his 20s.
One man weighed 170 pounds and wore a tan shirt, black pants and brown sandals and had a beard. The other man weighed 260 pounds and wore a white T-shirt, black shorts and was barefoot. He had long black hair.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the Palo Alto police 24-hour dispatch center at 650-329-2413. Anonymous tips can be e-mailed to paloalto@tipnow.org or sent by text message or voice mail to 650-383-8984.
Palo Alto is getting scary
270 lbs and he needed a bat? Now that’s a real man for ya!
I am touched by the actions of this 17 year old, sticking up out of respect for his mother. To his parents – job well done.
I hope they catch these losers. Shame on them for their disrespect & throw the book at them for their assault on the teen. Treating someone in public they eat they did the mother, then the assault, in daylight at a place of business is deplorable & frightening. My best wishes to this mother & her son.
This is the Main Palo Alto Post Office – somewhere where most of us have to go at some point or another. I don’t know what that was not referenced, I doubt most Palo Altans would know where this is otherwise.
Is this officially East Palo Alto?
I’d like to make a calm comment on the perpetrators here but anything I say would be deleted by the editors no matter how on-point it was. Maybe I can point out a possible father-sin or familial relationship and some negative socialization going on that is not going to help our society to be the melting pot we like to think it is.
My best wishes of health and all to the son, and mother.
Bru – (one registered user to the other) – I do not understand. Why do you think you have to be very careful here in this thread, stating that any comment will be deleted? I actually do not understand why comments are limited to registered users.
What a brave teenager! I hope he will okay, and the violent creeps both found, arrested, and thrown in the clink.
Village Fool, I think Bru may have meant that any comments construed as politically incorrect are removed, but I may be wrong. I firmly believe we should be able to write anything, excluding obscenities, as I’d love to know what people here are REALLY thinking on the issues, no matter how outré.
Congratulations to a young man who has a bigger “pair” than most grown men !