A crazy brawl broke out inside a 7-Eleven store in the heart of Hollywood when two suspects violently ambushed a teen college student for her gold chain and battered her friends along the way.
Destiny Valderrama, 18, was attacked at around 12:30 a.m. Sunday morning at the store located at 6702 Hollywood Blvd., according to the LAPD.
Valderrama, who had attended a quinceañera earlier that night, told the California Post she came into the store to grab snacks when she was attacked.
A young woman can be seen yanking her to the ground from behind before a male accomplice is seen repeatedly slamming her head against the floor until she lost consciousness.
“My friends tried helping by intervening, and they ended up getting dropped to the floor and dragged as well… I couldn’t even stand up to walk properly out of fear, and I continuously begged the 7/11 workers for help and to call the cops,” she told a journalist from OnScene.TV.
“None of them called or were willing to help and instead kicked us out and told us to leave,” she added.
She told the Post that she filed a police report following the attack, but has yet to hear back. An LAPD spokesperson confirmed that they received the report and that an investigation was ongoing.
Valderrama is currently a second-year student at Cal State University, Dominguez Hills and was coming back from a 15th birthday party with two friends when she was attacked.
She doesn’t know the two suspects who beat her and hopes police can “catch them soon.”
Last month, a group of nearly 20 teens stormed a 7-Eleven in Oakland, looting merchandise and damaging the store before some later returned and tried to force their way back inside.
One worker said a person ripped the store’s metal door handle off and threw it through a glass door, striking the store manager in the face.
