Ice cream man attacks woman, police say

AUSTIN (KXAN) - An ice cream man attacked an elderly woman at her front door and then tried to escape while pushing his cart of chilly treats in front of him as he ran away, police said.

He made it two blocks before the victim's son took him down. Neighbors held down the ice-cream man until police could come arrest him.

David Ochoa-Hernandez was charged with aggravated assault.

The 75-year-old woman had just returned from grocery shopping at about 4 p.m. Friday and had left the door partially open to put the groceries in her kitchen.

Police say David Ochoa-Hernandez, 24, pushed the front door open and shoved her to the ground.

"I thought he was going to kill me," Shirley Pitts said.

Ochoa-Hernandez then struck the woman in the face four to five times and tried to take her keys away, police say.

"He hit me again and again and then I was screaming," said Pitts.
 

The woman pressed her alarm on her vehicle key, which started the horn honking. That alerted her son and his girlfriend, who live nearby. They came running.

When Ochoa-Hernandez saw the woman's son coming to her aid, police said he began running down the street with his ice-cream cart.

"The people in the neighborhood heard the commotion so they surrounded him and held him until the police came," Pitts said.

Police arrested Ochoa-Hernandez, and he is being held on $150,000 bail for aggravated robbery. 

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