Arrests of Philadelphia Teens
64-Year-Old Veteran Beaten by 6 Teens, Reward Offered
Vietnam War Veteran recovering in hospital after six teens attacked him. The beating was caught on surveillance video.
By Teresa Masterson
Thursday, Jan 19, 2012
Ed Schaefer lost his eye in a grenade attack while serving in the Vietnam War. On Tuesday the 64-year-old was injured in a different kind of battle, as six teens ambushed him from behind in the Olney section of Philadelphia and fractured his skull in a senseless beating.
The beating was caught on surveillance video but the Schaefer has no memory of what happened.
“I’m lucky my husband’s not dead,” said Kate Schaefer.
The grandfather of four was on his way to meet his wife at about 6 p.m. Tuesday and while walking on the 5000 block of N 5th Street, six men approached him from behind, police say.
The teens beat Schaefer so badly that he was left with serious injuries to his face, head and hand including a broken skull and orbital bone around the eye he lost at war, according to authorities.
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The teens got four years
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In a perfect world those teens should of spent life in jail. Assaulting a veteran who gave his eye for his country? Theese are kids doing this.
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