Santa Monica Police accused a Los Angeles County registered intercourse offender Tuesday of attacking three folks on the seashore Monday morning, together with a 77-year-old lady he allegedly tried to drown within the ocean.
Jawann Garnett, 31, was booked on two counts of tried homicide, one depend of elder abuse and one depend of assault on a bystander, in accordance with Lt. Erika Aklufi, a spokesperson for the Santa Monica Police.
It’s unclear if Garnett has retained a lawyer. He’s scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday.
Santa Monica Police responded to a name at 9:41 a.m. by a 17-year-old lady being attacked on the seashore close to lifeguard tower No. 13, in accordance with Aklufi.
“We don’t know the motivations of the attacker, solely that he attacked her extraordinarily aggressively, inflicting her accidents,” Aklufi stated.
A bystander in her 20s tried to assist the 17-year-old and managed to wrestle Garnett off the teenager, in accordance with Aklufi.
Garnett turned on the unnamed bystander and allegedly punched her as soon as and bit her ear, leaving her “injured and shaken up,” in accordance with Aklufi.
Garnett stopped his assault solely to race to the waterline after recognizing a pair of seniors, police say.
He is accused of attacking a lady in her 70s and making an attempt to pull her into the water earlier than police arrived and arrested him.
All three victims had been handled on the scene, and two had been launched there. The 17-year-old was taken to a hospital with critical however non-life-threatening accidents, in accordance with authorities.
Garnett is registered as a intercourse offender on the state’s Megan’s Regulation database. He’s listed as a Santa Monica-area transient who beforehand pleaded no contest to an assault with intent to commit a intercourse crime.
He had been launched earlier within the month after spending lower than a 12 months in jail, in accordance with courtroom paperwork.
