A Philadelphia man is behind bars after he allegedly beat a woman brick with Friday evening as she walked along the Boardwalk.
It doesn’t appear Samuel Cooper knew the woman, who Atlantic City police found bleeding from the head when they arrived in the 2700 block of the famous wooden walkway.
Witnesses told police that the man struck the woman several times with a brick that was inside a T-shirt, according to the report.
An unidentified passerby stopped the assault.
Surveillance video shows the man sneak up behind the 67-year-old Philadelphia woman with a brick tied in a T-shirt and the striking her in the head, according to the affidavit of probable cause obtained by BreakingAC.
Once she is on the ground, he strikes her a total of nine more times, the affidavit states.
She remains hospitalized.
Cooper, 43, has several pending charges from incidents in Atlantic City this summer, court records show.
June 17 charges include criminal trespass, harassment and criminal mischief.
Two other criminal mischief charges from earlier in June have been transferred to the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office, records show.
Cooper was briefly in court Wednesday for a scheduled detention hearing. But the state asked for a postponement while awaiting evidence. The public defender agreed, calling it a “complicated case.”
Cooper remains in the Atlantic County Justice Facility.
