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MIAMI – Surveillance video shows Joshua James King recently beating up Andrea Puerta while she was alone inside Miami’s Metromover, police said. She said she had never seen him before.
King, 25, punched Puerta, 29, more than 20 times during the Sept. 4 attack. He kicked, pushed, and slammed her headfirst. She suffered a concussion.
“I remember that I closed my hands and I said, 'STOP! STOP! He did not stop," Puerta said. “There was a moment when he said, ‘Sorry’ and I looked at him and he punched me and after that, I don’t know what happened.”
Puerta said she passed out during the beating, and she managed to walk out of the Metromover in a daze and called 911.
Puerta, who looks caucasian, was the third person King had attacked that day. Two random white men were also attacked on the Metromover just hours earlier.
Court records show officers arrested him and a case was filed two days later. King is facing three counts of aggravated battery charges. It is unknown why hate crimes were not amongst the charges.
Records show King was released Sept. 10 on a $1,500 bond and he is set to appear in Miami-Dade County court on Sept. 25.