The woman, described as an 81-year-old Asian female in a white coat, was found bleeding and badly injured in a dark corner near a tire store on Saturday morning. Police say she was dissheveled and unable to talk, and was airlifted to a hospital:
Ochoa arrived to work around 9 a.m. to find the woman, wearing a blood-stained white coat, struggling to pull herself up on a stack of tires in the store parking lot on the 10700 block of San Pablo Avenue.It sounds like police don't have any possible suspects or motives. They don't have a lot to go on, and are hoping witnesses will come forward. Anyone with information about the assault is asked to call police at 510-620-6643. More here: El Cerrito woman, 81, found badly beaten, possibly sexually assaulted.
"I asked her if she was OK, and she wasn't really able to talk," said Ochoa, a 34-year-old Vallejo resident. "So, I ran inside and called 911, and when I did that, police already were starting to show up."