{"id":95011,"date":"2016-05-05T17:21:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T01:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=95011"},"modified":"2016-05-05T17:21:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T01:21:11","slug":"african-man-20-wearing-boxing-gloves-charged-after-a-vicious-rampage-in-an-adelaide-shopping-centre-where-he-king-hit-and-kicked-six-shoppers-leaving-a-56-year-old-woman-in-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=95011","title":{"rendered":"African man, 20, wearing boxing gloves charged after a &#8216;vicious&#8217; rampage in an Adelaide shopping centre where he king hit and kicked SIX shoppers &#8211; leaving a 56-year-old woman in hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3576054\/African-man-20-wearing-boxing-gloves-charged-terrifying-rampage-shopping-centre-king-hit-kicked-SIX-shoppers-leaving-56-year-old-woman-hospital.html\">Daily Mail<\/a>: A man went on rampage in Adelaide shopping mall on Thursday afternoon<br \/>\nThe 20-year-old randomly attacked six people including three woman<br \/>\nA 56-year-old victim was hospitalised with facial injuries and a concussion<br \/>\nThe man was arrested nearby and charged with five assault offences <\/p>\n<p>A man has been charged with a string of violent offences after allegedly attacking six random strangers, including three women, during a &#8216;vicious&#8217; rampage at a shopping centre.<br \/>\nA 56-year-old woman was hospitalised with facial injuries and concussion after a young man of African appearance started randomly attacking people inside Regency Plaza shopping centre, in Adelaide&#8217;s north, at around 1pm on Thursday.<br \/>\nThe alleged suspect, who wore boxing gloves, fled the scene but police were able to track the 20-year-old down and arrested him at a home in nearby Broadview at around 10.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with five assault offences including assault causing harm and aggravated assault.<br \/>\nWitnesses to the shocking daylight attack said they felt helpless as the man started randomly selecting victims before indiscriminately beating them to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>One man was kicked in the head repeatedly as he lay on the ground before his attacker moved on to another victim, according to the Today Show.<br \/>\nShop owner Ericson Montgomery confronted the man, despite fearing for his own life, after he saw him launch a brutal attack on a 56-year-old woman.<br \/>\n&#8216;I am still in shock. I had to turn to get away form him, he was fairly close at one stage with a big weapon,&#8217; he told the Today Show.<br \/>\nThe shop owner said he normally wouldn&#8217;t get involved in violent altercations like this, but he was concerned the man would end up taking a shoppers life.<br \/>\n&#8216;These were not just little hits, they were king hits of the most vicious kind,&#8217; Mr Montgomery told the Adelaide Advertiser.<br \/>\n&#8216;I was just trying to get him off the track to make sure he wasn\u2019t going to kill anyone.&#8217;<br \/>\nHe and a bakery owner warned other shoppers to stay away as the man made his way through the mall.<br \/>\nThe man was refused bail and will appear in Adelaide Magistrates Court on Friday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Mail: A man went on rampage in Adelaide shopping mall on Thursday afternoon The 20-year-old randomly attacked six people including three woman A 56-year-old victim was hospitalised with facial injuries and a concussion The man was arrested nearby and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=95011\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95012,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95011\/revisions\/95012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}