DENVER — What started as a catcall ended with three women being assaulted over the weekend. Denver police are now asking for help finding the suspect.
The altercation was recorded and posted to Facebook and Snapchat.
Police said it began just after 2 a.m. Saturday near 20th and Larimer streets. One of the women, Clarissa Nguyen, said in a Facebook post the suspect began catcalling her from the vehicle he was driving. She said she rejected him and he threw a bottle at her, cutting her in the head.
Doug Schepman with Denver police said two other women who were with Nguyen were then injured trying to stop the driver from fleeing the scene.
"My friends pointed me out and they're just like, 'Do you see her injuries? You're not going anywhere, you guys are going to be held accountable,'" Nguyen said.
The video posted to social media appears to show the women attempt to get inside a vehicle which then starts to drive away. One woman falls out of the back door of the vehicle and rolls to the side. In a second video taken from farther away, another woman falls out of the same door and is then run over by the vehicle.
That second woman, who wanted to be identified only as LaRissa, told 9NEWS she suffered 6 broken bones (scapula, humerus, nose, eye socket and two vertebrae), a bruised lung and road burns all down the right side of her body. She was released from the hospital Thursday, almost a week after the incident.
"I'm very grateful to be alive and have the support of my family, friends and doctors," said LaRissa, "I look forward to healing and being stronger than ever."
Nguyen said being involved in all of this has convinced her of one thing.
"It makes me more motivated to actually become a lawyer and fight for these people and people that are going through similar situations," she said.
Police are still looking for the suspect.
"It’s really disturbing, these women were trying to keep the suspect from leaving the scene and one of them was injured very badly in the process," Schepman said. "So we want to identify the suspect in this case and get the charges in this case.”
Police said the vehicle they are looking for is a silver Dodge Durango with Colorado license plate 728-QOZ. Anyone with information about who may have been driving it early Saturday morning is asked to call Denver police.
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