GREELEY, Colo. — Greeley Police have now arrested two men who are both accused of assaulting a teenage boy inside a convenience store last month.
The assault happened on Aug. 24, after the boy's mother said her son went to Sara’s Market, at 2201 8th Ave., to buy some chips. Surveillance video shows the boy exchanging words with two men before he is shoved and pressed into a glass cooler.
“He lifted my son up out of his shoes by his throat,” said the boy’s mother, who 9NEWS is not naming due to safety concerns. “He's 14 years old. These are grown men that did this to a boy, and it's terrible.”
On Thursday, Greeley Police said one of the men, 43-year-old Stanley Fancey, had been arrested. He faces misdemeanor charges of assault, harassment and child abuse.
Police asked for the public’s help in tracking down the second man, seen in the video wearing a red bag. On Tuesday, Greeley Police said the other man, Michael Ray Martin, was also arrested. He faces charges of disorderly conduct, second-degree assault - strangulation, false imprisonment, and child abuse.
“These men are disgusting,” said the boy's mother. “It’s just so unreal that that happened.”
She said the incident started after the two men accused her son of stealing. She believes his past karate training saved his life by allowing him to fight off the man pressing him against the glass wall.
“And then they said, ‘Do you want to fight like a man?’ ” she said. “He’s 14.”
The boy went to the hospital later that night but is expected to be OK, she said.
Anyone with information is asked to call Greeley Police at 970-350-9605.
> Watch the full surveillance video below: