Mechanic in coma after allegedly being attacked by customer who refused to pay for his car repairs – KIRO 7 News Seattle

“My father was dragged out of the store and repeatedly kicked and punched in the head,” she said. “It broke my heart that a 55-year-old man thought he was going to have a normal day at work. For him, it was just a normal day, but that was not the case.”

Surveillance video shows a woman and a man standing in front of the store and one person falling to the ground.

Later, the footage shows the alleged perpetrator knocking the phone out of another person’s hand near the store. Ven later identified the person as a colleague of her father who had tried to call for help.

Her father has been in a coma ever since, she said.

“Seeing him in such a vulnerable state hurts me the most because no one deserves to see their loved one like that,” she said.

A hospital spokesperson told KIRO 7 News that Duran has left the intensive care unit and is in satisfactory condition.

However, Ven said her father did not regain consciousness.

We have also contacted Kent Police for further information and are still awaiting a response.

KIRO 7 News also requested court documents from the King County District Attorney’s Office after the daughter stated the suspect was allegedly arrested and released on bail.

We are still waiting for further information and confirmation of her statement.

Ven said she is caring for her father’s three dogs while also struggling to keep his store open while he recovers from a traumatic brain injury.

She recently celebrated her birthday and Father’s Day without her father.

“I could give up the store, but I choose not to. I want to keep fighting for this because I know he would do the same for me,” Ven said. “Whoever did this can walk around freely, see his family and spend Father’s Day with his children while I suffer in the hospital and pray with my father when he will finally wake up.”

“My father did not deserve what happened to him. I think the perpetrator could have gone down many different paths and it didn’t have to end in violence,” she added. “My father was able to give me everything I wanted and so I feel that as his daughter it is only right to do the same for my father.”

Jason Martinez, Ven’s friend, said: “We still have hope. We still believe he can come back and work again. So we are doing everything we can to save the store so he can come back. We don’t want him to lose everything he’s worked for. We are doing our best to try to save the store.”

Ven has set up a GoFundMe campaign to help pay the store’s monthly bills.

“My father Elvis is a business owner; he has been a mechanic and self-employed for over 25 years. Unfortunately, on May 8, 2024, he was brutally attacked in his shop and suffered a traumatic brain injury with multiple brain hemorrhages and was in a coma in the neurological intensive care unit. Unfortunately, we do not know what will happen when he wakes up with his brain injuries. It is difficult to predict how stable he will be in the future. Until then, I will be taking care of 3 dogs and paying his monthly store and utility bills, but our family is praying that he wakes up stronger and healthier,” Ven wrote on the GoFundMe page.

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