Uniformed cop beaten by three attackers

A uniformed police officer was attacked by three men on Saturday night and tonight investigators believe it was a case of mistaken identity. According to twenty-three year old Zacceus Caal, around eight-thirty that night he was at the intersection of Albert and Albert Street West when a young man walked up to him, put a gun in his face and said they wanted him. But as the gunman was joined by two friends, the cop says even though they realized he was not the man they wanted, they decided to beat him up anyway. Officers in a police mobile patrol eventually came to Caal’s aid and managed to apprehend a fifteen year old, who the wounded man positively identified as one of the three people who attacked him. At a press briefing this morning, Officer Commanding the C.I.B., Superintendent Aaron Guzman, said it is still not clear why the group was looking for a police officer.

Supt. Aaron Guzman, Officer Commanding C.I.B.
“I would have liked for him to have said what is the reason for him and two other persons to approach the police officer and assault him with that firearm. One of them saying clearly that it was not him but still insisting on administering a beating on the police officer with that firearm. He hasn’t said to us the reason why. That is his right; he doesn’t have to explain to us why. So we will have to have our officers be real cautious. We’ll have to ask that our intelligence officers try to find out if there’s something out there with a police specific police officer or generally police officers that these young men have some gripe with.”

According to Guzman, cops have recovered the gun which the youth threw away when he tried to flee. That gun has since been identified as a stolen weapon.