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Jogger brutally attacked in Rocky River Reservation

Lakewood, Ohio (WJW) – 24 -year -old Vani Shukla knows Rocky River reservation well. This is where he trained for races and cleanses his mind.

“When I went to the reservation, I ran like I normally do. I have my friends. Everyone knows I’m running.”

But on Saturday evening, the trail he loved was the scene of a terrible attack.

“Suddenly, I felt hands on my blue, shoulders, and someone was drowning me in my neck. I couldn’t scream.”

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5’10 Vani, hooded and wearing gloves wearing a large man just before the sunset before the end of the path near the 8 -miles with two hands, then threw him to the darkened place, he said.

But not before fighting.

Um I tried to reach my phone’s power button because if you hit it several times, it will call 911, but I didn’t breathe. He grabbed his hands on me and then turned me, hit me on the sidewalk. He hit me there and I still lost his consciousness around my neck and I lost his consciousness. ”

When he came roughly three minutes later, he passed the forest to help. The poor and the bleeding managed to look for a friend who had to meet him at the end of his run and then at the end of his run.

Metroparks police recently met him and ran to FairView Hospital.

“What is your mind right now is like ‘oh, people die like that’.

The attack is also a terrible reminder of the double homicitis that occurred during the same trace in 2019.

Cornell Sledge and Katherine Brown’s Rocky River reservation murders have not been solved.

Vani, a secondary school music teacher in Elyria City School Region, said he was not aware of the murders.

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He still heals from a broken nose and caries to his face, neck and arms, and now he said he was talking not only to share his story, but also to warn others.

Orum I want people to be aware that this is real and that it can be safe and educated, ”he said.

Vani was in the process of training for the first full marathon in Columbus next month, and despite their injuries, he said he was still planning to join.

FOX 8 said in a statement, the metroparks police confirmed the attack. They said that their thoughts had come to the victim and that they were determined to bring the person or people to justice.

Cleveland metroparks police also increases patrols in the region.

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