Joo Hye-song and Brayden Medina: Woman and boy, 9, sues Target after homeless man stabs them in LA store
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Target has been sued after a homeless man brutally stabbed a nine-year-old boy and a woman in a Los Angeles store in 2022. The man grabbed a large butcher knife off the shelf of the store and attacked nine-year-old Brayden Medina, and Joo Hye-song, 25.
With a pair of lawsuits against Target, they are sued for negligence following the vagrant's attack in downtown Los Angeles on November 15, 2022. The attacker who was then shot by an armed guard succumbed to his injuries. Nearly five months after the stabbings, separate lawsuits have been filed against Target by Hye-song and Medina's parents reported NY Post.
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Security did not take quick action to stop the attack
The lawsuit claimed that the stores in Target should not allow knives to be placed in open display cases letting anyone take them and also accused the security of not taking immediate action to stop the brutal attack by the man whose name has not been revealed. Watermark Security Group and Brookfield Properties are also named as defendants in the twin complaints.
One of the lawsuits stated that "Despite knowing that [Downtown LA] was seeing an uptick in crime and homelessness, as evidenced, in part, by Target employing an armed security guard to keep the store safe, on the evening of November 15, 2022, a deranged homeless man walked freely into the store, grabbed a butcher knife with a nine-inch blade easily off a shelf and proceeded to brutally attack not just one customer but two customers before he was belatedly shot by the security guard."
Brayden suffered 'grave and life-changing injuries'
The lawsuit filed by the nine-year-old boy's parents stated that in the stabbing, he suffered "grave and life-changing injuries" and was under treatment in the hospital for more than a month. "Neither the armed security guard nor anyone working at the store came to the boy’s (or his mother’s) rescue before it was too late," stated the complaint. The lawsuit filed highlighted that the knives that were displayed for sale at the store are now locked away and noted that it is "a safety measure that should’ve been in place the whole time," reported Fox 11 Los Angeles.
