When Ricky Hessert noticed someone crouched down near his mother's car he pulled out his phone to record, but never expected it would end with a hospital visit.
The man in the video appears to be slashing the tire's of his mother's car. It was the second time in less than two months Hessert came home to flat tires.
Hessert told Detectives as he was recording the suspect noticed him and began to attack him with the object he used to puncture his mother's tires.
“He comes at me and then he tries to stab me. He stabbed me in the hand successfully. I was able to get him off of me. He started running down the road and I chased him,” said Ricky Hessert, in a phone call.
His mother, Debra was also home at the time of the incident but says she did not witness it.
“That’s still flat," she said Friday evening as she walked around the car.
She says neither her nor her son recognized the man in the video.
“You can see him on that side with his butt hanging out, no shirt, no shoes and he was on the ground over there and he went around and when he came back this way, he spotted my son,” said Debra Hessert.
It's when the man spots her son that things take a dangerous turn. The suspect is seen walking towards Ricky and both men exchange brief words. “what’s up bruh, what’s up bruh?" A scuffle ensues and someone can be heard screaming and then the video ends.
Ricky told detectives he was stabbed in the back, chest and hand. He shared a video of the wound on his hand with Four in Your Corner.
"Two hours later, still bleeding, straight through the hand," says Ricky in the video.
Deputies identified the man in the video as 20-year-old Jecoa Loredo. He is charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and criminal mischief.
“I’m just so scared because he could've been stabbed in his heart or the perforation of his lungs, all over what!,” said Debra Hessert.
