An Illinois man was brutally trampled by a group of men during Memorial Day after being subjected to a seemingly random but continuous assault at a train station in St. Louis. It was all in front of his wife.
“My husband’s head was gushing blood.” Dejona Kunselmann
told Hurst, Illinois About the nighttime attack on her husband Lee.
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What are the details?
A couple from Glen Carbon enjoyed a night out with friends at a casino in Illinois.
Reported by KMOV TVThen they took the Metrolink train to downtown St. Louis and sang karaoke. Glen Carbon Village is about 20 minutes northeast of St. Louis.
A nightmare unfolded at the 8th and Pine stops.
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“When we were about to get off the Metrolink…as soon as the door opened, a group of four or five people attacked us,” said Lee Kunselmann, whose left eye was severely bruised and swollen shut. ) told KMOV about the assault. against him and another man.
Kunselmann told police that one of the attackers “pushed me so hard that he almost knocked me off my feet… and said ‘get off’ and as soon as I did that everyone jumped in and started pouncing on me.” ‘ said. myself. ”
“They kept stamping on my head so hard I thought I was going to die,” Dejona Kunselmann told KMOV.
She told Hurst, Illinois, they were with another couple at the time, and the other husband was “fisted by another man. My friend and I could only watch it.” “I was screaming, ‘Stop! Stop!'” They finally stopped. It probably lasted about 5 minutes.They ran…we hugged her husband [the platform] and called 911. ”
What happened next?
Kunselmann suffered a concussion and needed at least 12 stitches to put his eyelids back in place, KMOV reported. DeJonah Kunselman told Hearst, Illinois, that she is currently unable to work and that she is “still blind in her left eye.”
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She added to Hearst, Illinois, that she called 911 but didn’t see the paramedics at the station. “We rushed my husband to the hospital. We didn’t wait. He wanted to get out of St. Louis. We waited and waited. Nobody came.” I finally got an Uber I got a call from the MetroLink police while I was in the Uber My husband was bleeding from his head and the ambulance never arrived Uber is better than the ambulance I got there early, and I didn’t mean to wait that long.”
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Another man attacked suffered a broken nose and eye socket, the paper added.
What about suspects?
Deyonah Kunselmann told KMOV on Thursday that she was told by St. Louis police that four suspects had been identified.
Hearst Media said Metrolink officials had been in touch with her since the incident, adding that authorities had found CCTV footage of the attack.
DeJonah Kunselman described the four or five men who attacked as being tall, thin, in their 20s and African-American, Hearst Media added.
A Metro spokesperson told KMOV that it began cooperating with police from Tuesday.
anything else?
KMOV added that the attack on Lee Kunselmann “seemed really random. He doesn’t remember everything, maybe he accidentally bumped into the guy, but what was the basis for being trampled?” There weren’t any,” he added.
He told police the attackers “did not give any reason” for their actions, adding: “They had no weapons, they didn’t ask us for money, I never tried to steal anything,” he said. we. ”
DeJonah Kunselmann told Hearst Media: “I remember one gentleman when we first got on the train…he briefly approached us and said, ‘Hey, do you have money for food?’ I just said,” he said. and we ignored him. So he went back to where the other gentlemen were sitting, and that was it. ”
As for getting back on the train, it’s out of the question for the time being.
“I think it’s just traumatizing us now. Maybe later, but not now,” Dejona Kunselmann told KMOV.
In fact, the couple told the station they would never take Metrolink trains again unless all trains had security guards. “If someone was there in some kind of uniform, I don’t think it would have happened,” said DeJona Kunselmann.
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