A 15-year-old has been arrested in Philadelphia, suspected of being involved in a “knockout game” attack against Mark Cumberland earlier in the month.
Cumberland, 29, stepped out of Verree Pizza in Fox Chase on November 11 when he was asked for a cigarette.
“By the time I got my hands out my pocket, I was getting hit by four kids,” he told CBS.
Cumberland is still having trouble seeing and breathing and swallowing, he said.
“There’s no reason at all. I mean, I didn’t get robbed, they didn’t take nothing from me. They just beat me up.”
The 15-year-old, who hasn’t been identified because he’s a juvenile, has been charged with aggravated assault and criminal conspiracy.
The four kids who hit him were white, Cumberland told ABC.
After being attacked, he was treated at Aria-Torresdale Hospital.
Police are still searching for the other suspects.
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