78-year-old Dallas body shop owner pistol-whipped during robbery in Cedar Crest
A masked robber attacked 78-year-old Ismael Arreola at his Cedar Crest body shop, striking him with a pistol and stealing his necklace. Dallas Police are still searching for a suspect.
Masked robber beats elderly business owner at Dallas body shop
A 78-year-old man was beaten with a pistol and robbed at his own body shop in Dallas's Cedar Crest neighbourhood, according to nbcdfw.com. Police are still searching for the suspect.
On 20 October at around noon, Dallas Police responded to a robbery call in the 100 block of East Saner Avenue. Officers determined that an unknown suspect had entered Arreola's, a body shop, struck the owner in the head, and fled with his property.
The victim, Ismael Arreola, was transported to hospital following the attack. His niece, Mary Martinez, told reporters the suspect hit Arreola on the head and ear with a pistol before grabbing his necklace and running from the scene. The robber dropped a cross pendant on his way out.
Security footage from the business captured the masked suspect both before and after the robbery. Workers were on the other side of a wall when the attack took place.
"As soon as he came in, he said a profanity, a bad word, and then just started hitting him," Martinez said.
Arreola was discharged from hospital on Wednesday morning. Martinez said her uncle has worked at the body shop for 30 years.
"Came in my uncle's place of business and hurt him for no reason whatsoever. Just to take a necklace," she said.
Martinez added that the outcome could have been far worse. "It could have been so much worse, and we are grateful it wasn't. It's bad, it's horrific what they did to him, but he's here."
Dallas Police have not identified a suspect and no arrests have been made. The investigation remains ongoing.
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