Kim Glass

A Team USA Olympic medal winner says a man attacked her outside a Los Angeles restaurant, hurling a metal object at her and fracturing her eye socket.

I do have multiple fractures up here and a small one here," she said, pointing at her right eye. "He had something in his hand on the other side of the car in the street and he just kind of looked at me with some pretty hateful eyes and as I turned to go tell my friend, 'I think something's wrong with him, I think he's gonna hit the car,' before I knew it, a big metal bolt, like a pipe, hit me in my eye. The footage shows her right eye swollen and bruised, with a line of stitches below her eyebrow.

Kim Glass, a retired Olympic volleyball player, was attacked Friday in downtown Los Angeles when a man threw a metal object at her face.

Glass, a Los Angeles native, posted videos showing her injuries to her eye, nose and cheek. Tesfamariam was booked on suspicion of felony assault with a deadly weapon, according to Officer Drake Madison, a Los Angeles police spokesperson. Glass, a 2008 Olympic silver medalist, had been leaving a lunch on Friday afternoon when she saw a man run up with something in his hand.

Glass, who won a silver medal as part of the U.S. indoor volleyball team in 2008, suffered multiple facial fractures.

“So you guys just be safe.” And just know that I’m okay.” “I love you guys so much.

Former Olympic volleyball player Kim Glass said she suffered multiple face fractures and her eye was swollen shut after she was attacked in downtown Los ...

The incident left Glass with multiple fractures in her face, she said, adding that one of her eyes was swollen shut and she had to get stitches. The incident occurred on Friday, according to The Associated Press. "He just like looked at me with some pretty hateful eyes," Glass said.

The U.S. volleyball star said she was suffered facial fractures after getting attacked by a homeless man outside of a Los Angeles restaurant.

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Karen Bass called the incident "a despicable act of violence that has no place in our city." Onlookers sent their thoughts to Glass following the traumatic event. U.S. Olympian Kim Glass said she suffered a fractured eye socket after a man she believed was homeless attacked her outside of a Los Angeles restaurant.

Kim Glass, a silver medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, had been leaving a lunch on Friday afternoon when a man threw a metal object at her face, ...

Glass, a Los Angeles native, posted videos showing her injuries to her eye, nose and cheek. Tesfamariam was booked on suspicion of felony assault with a deadly weapon, according to Officer Drake Madison, a Los Angeles police spokesperson. Kim Glass, a silver medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, had been leaving a lunch on Friday afternoon when she saw a man run up with something in his hand.

U.S. Volleyball star athlete Kim Glass posted a stark warning on social media telling people to "just be safe" after she said she was allegedly attacked by ...

We need immediate shelter and housing for as many people as we can get off the streets now, and then we need the care courts that have been brought up and fought against by some activists who think people have the right to live on the streets. It's not time to talk about it in a mayoral discussion. It's time to carry it out right now. "The sad thing is it doesn't just happen to beautiful wonderful Olympians who are well-known. "Just be safe out there," she said in the videos. She revealed she was diagnosed with multiple facial fractures and needed stitches, but that her doctors said they don't expect her vision to be permanently affected.

Glass won an Olympic silver medal with USA Volleyball and has appeared in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.

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Olympic medal-winning volleyball star Kim Glass shown moments after she was nearly blinded in Los Angeles, allegedly by a homeless man who was pinned down ...

He also said he hopes it “inspires any other man that sees a woman being attacked to go out your way to help her.” Parks, who calls himself a “serial entrepreneur” in his Instagram profile, described how he “jumped out” of his truck when he “heard a lady screaming.” “I hope this pushes LA county government to do something about the homeless crisis downtown and all over the city,” he wrote.

Video taken in the seconds after Kim Glass was attacked on the streets of Downtown L.A. has emerged ... and it shows blood was spattered everywhere near the ...

"He just like looked at me with some pretty hateful eyes," Glass said of the attack. The video also shows Parks holding down the man who was suspected of throwing the object. Video taken in the seconds after Kim Glass was attacked on the streets of Downtown L.A. has emerged ... and it shows blood was spattered everywhere near the former volleyball star as she sat injured on the sidewalk.

A man faces a felony count of assault with a deadly weapon following an attack on former Olympic volleyball player Kim Glass last week in downtown Los ...

Tesfamariam had arrests for felony assaults in 2018 and in 2019, the district attorney's office said. Glass, a Los Angeles native, posted videos showing her injuries to her eye, nose and cheek. Glass had been leaving a lunch when she saw a man run up with something in his hand and throw it at her head, the athlete said in videos posted to social media.

Former Olympic volleyball silver medalist Kim Glass was attacked Friday afternoon in Los Angeles by a man who threw a metal object at her face, ...

Glass, a Los Angeles native, posted videos showing her injuries to her eye, nose and cheek. Tesfamariam was booked on suspicion of felony assault with a deadly weapon, according to officer Drake Madison, a Los Angeles police spokesperson. Kim Glass, a silver medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, had been leaving a lunch on Friday afternoon when she saw a man run up with something in his hand.