A former Olympic volleyball player is recovering after she says she was attacked and brutally beaten by a homeless man in downtown Los Angeles.
Kim Glass said she was leaving lunch with a friend over the weekend when a man ran up out of nowhere and threw a metal object at her, believed to be a pipe, that then hit her face.
A group of strangers came to her aid until paramedics arrived while others held down the man who allegedly attacked her until police got to the scene.
Glass ended up posting a video on social media after the attack occurred.
“Guys, just be safe out there… I wasn’t ready for it and there’s a lot of mentally ill people on these streets right now,” she said in the video.
Glass won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics on the U.S.A. women’s indoor volleyball team. She’s also done some modeling in her career, once appearing in a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.
