Just before 9 o’clock this morning, traffic built up around Reservoir Oval in Norwood as dozens of local police, aided by helicopters, chased after a group of suspects who, witnesses said, severely beat up a local barber.
Police managed to track down and capture at least one of the suspects. By 9:15 a.m., he was sitting in a police car on Reservoir Oval East at Putnam Place. While he sat in the back of the police car, the victim was laid out on a stretcher in an ambulance just 10 feet away. Both were later taken away.
The barber, who is Dominican, was jogging in Oval Park when a group of black men began yelling ethnic slurs at him, according to witnesses. The group then chased him down out of the park and beat him up using various makeshift weapons.
Some speculated that the beating might have stemmed from an earlier beef between the barber and his friends and the group of men who beat up the barber.
Police at the scene wouldn’t comment.
Stay tuned.
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