While violent crime is down in the city, according to the LAPD, the attacks — which prosecutors say were committed by a homeless man — have heightened years of debate about the area's well-known homeless problems.
Mary Klein wanted to get in 3,000 more steps. It was around 10:30 p.m., and the longtime Venice resident and sculptor — who had just finished up at work caring for an elderly couple — hadn't reached her daily goal of 10,000. She headed to the canals, parked along Strongs Drive and started to walk. But soon after, she said, she felt someone's presence behind her. Then everything went black. About an hour later, another woman was attacked a few hundred feet away.
Doctors told her she suffered a traumatic brain injury. When she finally was able to pick herself up off the ground, she said, she thought: 'Huh, I don't feel so good.' 'I knew I'd been knocked out by something, but I didn't know what,' Klein said. 'I just picked myself up and went home,' where she laid down on the couch and fell asleep. As time has passed and Klein's physical injuries have begun to heal, she's become frustrated.
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