DUBLIN, Calif. (KGO) – A 14-year-old boy is still recovering from the attack in the Dublin High School locker room last Friday.
According to police, the attack involved a parent and four other people between the ages of 16 and 19, all of whom were wearing hoodies and masks.
The victim’s mother, Cherie Barfield, is working to keep her restaurant afloat while her son recovers at home.
“This week I said I’m going to try to recover and reset, but it’s just so much, we really have to stay closed right now,” said Cherie Barfield, the victim’s mother and owner of Cherie’s Southern Kitchen.
His welfare was threatened after he was attacked in the boys’ locker room at Dublin High School last Friday afternoon.
“His blood was everywhere, all over the floor, and he was sitting on a bench in front of his locker screaming at the top of his lungs, ‘Nobody helped me, how could four adults attack me? Five adults?'” Barfield said.
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She says her son was first confronted with her daughter by a mother at a Dublin high school.
According to Dublin Police, the boy ran into the changing room but was pursued by four suspects believed to be between 16 and 19 years old.
Everyone wore masks and hoodies.
“It started out one-on-one. The guy punched my son in the back of the face and broke his nose while he was sitting there looking at his phone. My son got up to fight back and then they all fell on him,” she said.
The football coach and other students broke up the fight.
Her son was hospitalized with a concussion, a broken nose and a black eye.
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Due to his injuries, he will not participate in the first football game of the season on Friday.
“I want everyone to know that my son’s identity was mistaken. They didn’t even want my son, they wanted one of his friends,” she said.
Police say this is not a random incident, but no arrests have been made yet. The investigation by school security forces is ongoing.
And Barfield is calling for unity. Her restaurant, Cherie’s Southern Kitchen, is hosting a Unity Prayer Brunch on Sunday, with a portion of the proceeds going directly to Dublin High’s football program.
“We want to make sure our students are safe, and locking the door in the back is not a solution,” she said. “So if we can give them enough money so they can hire full-time staff to be on site and present so that this never happens to a child again, I will continue to raise as much money as I can.”
The Dublin Unified School District did not respond to our request for comment.
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