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Homeless Veteran Loses Eye After Being Attacked With Hammer While Sleeping

August 18, 2012 at 10:59 pm by  

Homeless Veteran Loses Eye After Being Attacked With Hammer While Sleeping TITUSVILLE, Fl – A 52-year-old homeless veteran is fighting for his life after a man attacked him while he slept, using a hammer to bash in his skull.

Police were patrolling an area Friday morning when they noticed 33-year-old John Paul Angelillo in front of an abandoned business holding a hammer. When the officers turned into the business, they noticed 52-year-old David Gotshall on the ground nearby suffering from severe injuries.

The injuries where caused by Angelillo using a hammer to strike Gotshall in the face as he slept. Gotshall suffered multiple facial and skull fractures and the loss of one eye. He also suffered injuries to his ribs and a broken arm. He had to be airlifted to the hospital and is currently in critical condition.

Gotshall, a Desert Storm veteran, was sleeping behind the business because, according to friends, he had no where else to go after the city dismantled his previous camp a week earlier.

“He had some issues but we were supporting him. About eight or nine months ago, the police and the city crews cleared out his camp off Tropic Street. They took a lot of his tools and threw them away. He was really just trying to work. He was really trying to have a better life,” said George Taylor, president of the Titusville-based National Veterans Homeless Support.

Angelillo was arrested at the scene and charged with attempted murder. No word on motive, but police say that the two men have gotten into verbal altercations in the past.

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    • guillotinegirl

      First it wasn’t safe to fall asleep because clowns would eat you. Now this.

    • Sam

      Maybe this clown was just trying to tenderise his steak prior to lunch?

    • Sam

      So we have somebody who has risked his life for the country, was trying to make a life of sorts for himself but got screwed over by the very government that should have helped him who threw away the tools of his livelihood, and now he is at severe risk of living the rest of his life as a vegetable because of what from the look in his eyes seems to me to be someone who should have been in some sort of mental institution and not turned out onto the street and left to his own devices by the same government. What a sad state of affairs.

    • LuvsHorror

      Nice, risk your life for your country, and end up homeless.

    • JohnQknowitall

      …and threw his tools away.

      I am sure the area looks better… if you are not a poor person who needed a place to sleep.

      How did he get to the point of not having a home?

    • curiousalways

      wait, I think it’s CT that’s scared of clowns. Don’t let her know you said the “c” word.