Author: /u/suicideyourdarlings

Hi! This might be a stretch, but I was wondering if anyone knows anything about a homeless man who assaulted me and some other people (only women, so far as I saw) outside of the CVS at Katy Freeway and Wirt today around 11AM. I’m wondering if he’s a known presence/offender around the area.

He was wearing a green shirt and had dark skin, perhaps of southeast asian descent (he may have been black but honestly this happened very fast and I was trying not to make eye contact). He had dark brown ratty hair with – I think – a bit of grey, that was unkempt and stuck out sort of like Chuckie from Rugrats (lol first thing I thought of), and a beard and facial hair. He had an object he was carrying with him, which was sort of in the shape of a long piece of thick wood plank wrapped in what looked like a pink tarp.

I live in ny (left the city to come here for the time being for obvious reasons) and I encounter a lot of homeless people, so I know how to deal when someone is following behind and screaming at me for spare change. I felt more threatened by this guy than I ever have by any stranger on the street in ny or otherwise. It shook me up perhaps more than it should have, given, but this is a relatively well-policed area and I’ve never known any of the homeless people who hang around to attack anyone in their line of sight (particularly at that CVS, which I’ve been to hundreds of times since it was built).

I should clarify: *I* was not physically assaulted. He screamed and jumped in my face and when I didn’t acknowledge him, followed me back toward the store doors while using his body to block my path (I am a young woman). He did physically assault a woman who came in ten seconds after I reentered the store. Yes, I called the police and was told that I was not the only person who reported the incident.

On another note, nobody in the store, customers included, was any help, so big on y’all! I asked a man exiting the store if he could help me to my car and he didn’t even look at me, lol.

Let me know if this is the wrong place to post this. Thanks! Apologies for rambling.