MILWAUKEE — A couple in Milwaukee is asking for help identifying three teens they said left them badly bruised in an unprovoked attack Friday night.
After returning home from a 12-hour shift, while still in his car, a man noticed the teenagers peering into other car windows near N. 26th St. and W. Michigan St.
He was suspicious, but once they walked past him, he thought he was safe to head inside.
That's when Jenaveve Mikula, the man's partner, said the teens started demanding that he hand over his wallet and keys. Then things got violent.
"They threw him to the ground and started kicking him, punching him," Mikula recalled, seeing the sudden attack captured live on their ring doorbell camera.
She immediately rushed outside to come to his aide.
"At that point, I didn't care what happened to me. I didn't care," she said. "I just thought that I had to be there. I could not let him be there by himself."
Mikula's main focus was helping her partner fend off the attackers. She managed to land a few punches, but she wasn't left unscathed.
"It was all mainly a blur but all I remember thinking is I need to get to him, to help him," she recalled. "He was bleeding all over his face. He has bruises all over his chest, his back, his legs. His knee was partially dislocated."
Now the couple is asking for people in the community to help identify their attackers as they call for accountability and Milwaukee Police investigate the incident.
"I'm really disappointed that they see someone so vulnerable and they go after them and it's really heartbreaking," she said. "To the parents, it's just... Why can't you be in their lives more or why can't you care more?"
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