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| Baltimore pro-lifer Mark Crosby photo by John Roswell |
Dick Schafer and Mark Crosby were seriously injured in the attack. Crosby was hospitalized with a fractured bone in his face.
Local pro-life John Roswell described the incident to LifeSiteNews. He said that the attacker first asked one of Planned Parenthood's escorts to hold his drink before lunging at Schafer “who believes his back was turned at that time to the assailant.” Roswell said that Schaeffer was slammed into the glass of the Planned Parenthood building.
“Mark, who was in the street, tried to go to Dick’s aid and was hit in the face, knocking him on the ground and the man then kicked him in the head,” Roswell added.
A client from the nearby pro-life pregnancy center, Options @328 Baltimore, screamed. A nurse from that facility quickly responded to help the injured men.
Images of Crosby after the attack show a severely swollen eye and nose. Roswell said the “plate bone in [Crosby’s] upper right cheek is completely fractured,” and he “is bleeding from some unidentified area behind his eye, and the bone eye orbit is completely shattered and will have to be replaced with metal.”
Supporters raised $41,881 in a GoFundMe campaign to help Crosby with his medical expenses.
On June 1, Baltimore police said they obtained video evidence of the attack, but no suspect had yet been identified or arrested.
