By Canadian Press

Jul 11, 2022 | 11:45 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Olympic volleyball participant was attacked Friday in downtown Los Angeles when a person threw a metallic object at her face in an assault that fractured a number of bones in her face and left one in every of her eyes swollen shut, the athlete mentioned in movies posted to social media.

Kim Glass, a silver medalist on the 2008 Beijing Olympics, had been leaving a lunch on Friday afternoon when she noticed a person run up with one thing in his hand. He was on the opposite facet of a automotive, on the street, when he threw the article — what Glass believes may need been a metallic pipe or bolt — at her face.

“He identical to checked out me with some fairly hateful eyes,” she mentioned in videos posted to Instagram. “It occurred so quick, he actually flung it from the road, he was not even near me in any respect.”

Bystanders restrained the person — recognized by police as Semeon Tesfamariam, 51 — till officers arrived to take him into custody.