Deaf Elderly Man Is Nearly Beaten To Death By Couple Who Assaulted Comedian Less Than 2 Months Prior And Were Never Arrested

A video that was released Saturday evening on Facebook shows a violent attack upon an elderly man who was walking with a dog outside a Redding bar Friday night.

There are many questions and just a few answers. What caused the man with the reddish beard to react so violently to the elderly man? What part did the woman play in the assault? Who were the people in the video? Were there witnesses? Most of all, what’s the medical condition of the elderly man who was so forcefully beaten by someone clearly younger and stronger than him that the older man fell to the ground and appeared to never regain consciousness?

The bar’s surveillance video was passed along anonymously to Nathan Pinkney, a Redding comedian and satirist who in turn posted the video Saturday night on his Facebook page, Redding Be Like.

Pinkney, who’s been known by various stage names, including Nathan Blayz, and Nathan the Creator , had personal reasons for posting the graphic video on Facebook: Pinkney claims that the very couple who assaulted him on May 4 at his former workplace, Market Street Blade & Barrel restaurant, was the same couple seen in the Friday surveillance video in which the older man in a blue shirt ends up requiring CPR from an unidentified good Samaritan.

On Facebook, Pinkney names his two alleged assailants who he says attacked him nearly two months ago: Chris Meagher and Elizabeth Bailey. Likewise, Pinkney says he’s 100 percent certain that these were the same people captured in Friday’s surveillance video attacking the older man outside a Redding bar while the man held his dog’s leash.