The Taco truck, which was described as an essential element in the South Los Angeles community, was subjected to a group of suspects in a late late night attack that was fully arrested on the camera.
According to the Los Angeles Police Administration, many calls related to the attack with a fatal weapon came to send at approximately 12:10 am on Monday in the Slauson Street and Avalon Boulevard.
A LAPD spokesman told KTLA: “Another caller said that they break the windows and attack the employees on the site.”
The officers rushed to the scene. However, all suspects from the area escaped by the time they arrived. No arrests have been made regarding the incident in the 36 hours that occurred since then.
Multiple police reports have been taken, including to theft, attack with a fatal weapon and sabotage, according to LAPD.
While the authorities did not immediately reveal more details about the attack, Report of La Taku -An independent media outlet that covers “street news stories” all over Los Angeles-indicates that a group of “approximately 30 men” participated in the attack on 13 workers in the taco Los Poplanos sandwiches, a Taku truck in Tijuana, which is run by a family located within a car park in car washing.
A later statement from LAPD indicated that there are “nearly 15 suspects described as male male for Spanish origin” participating in the accident.
The statement indicated that there are six total victims, five of whom were treated at the scene due to pain complaints.
“A professional specialist, similar to Tiguana, is an essential element in the society of South Los Angeles for nearly 15 years, in any case of this size,” said La Taco Javier Cabral correspondent.
In addition, taco Los Poplanos sandwiches He took to social media To inform the public of the accident and show the damage to the truck, with a terrible video of the attack and its effects in this position.
“Unfortunately, our entire team was assaulted, and one of our teammates had to transfer him to the hospital,” this reads the Instagram post in the widely beloved sellers. “To everyone, please be careful and monitor these people.”
“We did not face any problems with anyone … our team is working very hard,” the post continued. “Many of our customers tell us that this was happening because the group of saboteurs was transporting the event live on Tiktok … This is very destructive for us at many levels.”
Speaking to Kimberly Cheng from KTLA 5 on Tuesday, family members in some employees recounted the frightening experience and expressed their belief that the attack, which occurred with the truck closing at night, was random and indifferent.
One of the women, who asked not to reveal her identity, said: “They came to run and immediately began to cause damage … They started breaking things, and you can see our employees notice what is going on.” “They interacted quickly [with] Some of them run to the truck and try to ban themselves. The female employees ran to the fence and scored the fence. “
“They broke the windows, and they cut the truck tires and other truck windows,” she continued. “Then they started hitting our employees.”
The same woman noticed that the workers until I would have suspects whether they were suffering from any problems for any reason, as if they were eating there previously and they were not satisfied.
“We asked them,” they did [you] Eat here earlier today? and [whether or not] They have faced problems with us in the past few months or weeks they can remember, “she said.”[They said] Absolutely nothing. “
In reference to the worker who was transferred to the hospital, the KTLA employee told that they were injured in his chest with a Pisbul striker.
“Why do we not even take the money,” the employee expressed.
The ownership of the store said that some of the suspects were wearing football shirts of Cruz Azul, a team in Mexico, and some of them heard screaming with soccer things; However, they were not known exactly what they were referring to. The property added that none of the workers have any affiliation with football teams.
The social media post from Tacos Los Poblanos indicated that the site in Slauson and Avalon will be closed until further notice. Other trucks run by the same company are open.
The cost of repairing the damage was not immediately known.
Anyone with information about the attack or additional video clips is encouraged to call LAPD.