New photos show the sickening moment a California man brutally assaulted a female Safeway employee in San Francisco.
Quantel Summerfield, 28, of Sacramento County, attacked an unidentified woman inside a store in the city's Ocean Beach neighborhood around 5:30 a.m. on Nov. 10. According to authorities and the San Francisco Chronicle.
It's unclear why Summerfield allegedly chased the woman, but chilling photos Get ABC7 News It shows him grabbing her head as she sits on the ground and raising his other hand as if to strike her.
Another snapshot captured by the store's surveillance camera allegedly shows Ms Summerfield dragging her across the floor and into another room by her hair.
After someone called 911 to report the assault, police showed up and found the injured victim.
Paramedics took her to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, the Chronicle reported.
Authorities caught up with Summerfield later that day, arrested him, and slapped him with two felonies: second-degree robbery and assault by means likely to cause serious bodily injury.
He pleaded not guilty in court Thursday, according to ABC.
The full video, which ABC has not released, allegedly shows Summerfield punching a woman and forcing her to the ground, then punching her and dragging her away.
He fled after someone entered the area.
The local district attorney announced that the suspect, who remains in San Francisco County Jail, will appear in court on Monday for a detention hearing.
Shoppers who frequent the store remained horrified that such a thing could happen.
“I don't understand it,” customer Ann Randolph said. “I don't understand why someone would hurt someone for someone else… They could have walked all over her or left her alone, no matter what they were doing.”
“It was violent and scary,” another woman told the network.
“I thought, 'Oh my god, if it was me or someone I love, I would be horrified.'”
Safeway told the ABC in a statement: “We are communicating our thoughts to the employees involved in the incident.”
“We take this matter seriously and are working with law enforcement to provide them with the information they need to assist law enforcement,” the company said in a statement.
Another shopper, Mark Avery, thought it was a sign of the times.
“We see too many situations where unnecessary attacks are carried out against innocent people,” he said.
