Man sentenced to 6 years in prison for violent attack on boy outside Disney Concert Hall
A homeless man was sentenced Thursday to six years in prison after placing an 11-year-old boy in a chokehold and piercing his neck with a key outside the Walt Disney Concert Hall late last year.
Raul Villalba Ocampo, 33, pleaded no contest to one count of child abuse before he was sentenced for the Dec. 10 attack in downtown Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.
The boy was on a school field trip to watch a chorale rehearsal and standing outside the concert hall when Ocampo grabbed him, authorities said.
On the front steps of the Frank Gehry-designed venue, Ocampo placed the boy in a chokehold and held a sharpened key against his neck. Ocampo was wrestled away by security.
The boy’s neck was punctured during the attack.
After the incident, authorities said the boy had recovered.
“He’s a real trouper,” sheriff’s deputy Lt. Bob Killeen said at the time.
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