Man in jacuzzi violently kicked, robbed in random Southern California attack

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Police are searching for two suspects caught on video Friday violently attacking a man who works to serve the homeless in San Bernardino, sending him to the hospital.

Greg Medina said he was just relaxing in his jacuzzi when he was assaulted, and the attack was completely random and unprovoked. He’s hoping someone might recognize the suspects to bring them to justice.

He didn’t get a good look at them but said he believes they’re either teens or young adults.

“I could have lost consciousness or I could have been hurt a lot worse and drowned,” he said.
Video shows the suspects approaching Medina while he was sitting in the jacuzzi at the Creekside Village apartments in San Bernardino Friday night. One of the suspects then delivered a hard kick to the back of Medina’s head.

“I was listening to the class in earbuds and normally I don’t do that, but this day I decided to, and felt a sharp kick behind my head,” he recalled. “I saw the kids off in the distance, didn’t really pay much attention to them.”

The other suspect is then seen in the video reaching down to steal Medina’s phone, which was resting on the concrete.

Medina tracked his phone to a neighboring apartment complex and contacted police.

“Being that it’s a nice-sized complex with about 30 or 40 units, they couldn’t track it down to a single unit,” he said.

It had been a long week. Medina works as a chef to feed the unhoused for Lutheran Social Services, a nonprofit with a location in San Bernardino.

“An average morning, I serve about 70, 75 men. I start at 5 a.m., and I usually end about 1, 2 o’clock,” Medina said.

He went to the emergency room and learned he had a concussion but, as the only parent who provides for his 12-year-old daughter, he said taking one day off was all he really could do, despite not feeling well.

Medina is hoping someone will recognize these two suspects, who police said could face assault with a deadly weapon and robbery charges, both felonies.