SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The grandmother of the late Stephon Clark is at home recovering after being assaulted and robbed of her jewelry just a few blocks from her home.
Sequita Thompson, 69, says she was attacked Sunday afternoon in broad daylight while out on a walk in her South Sacramento neighborhood.
Thompson broke down multiple times in her interview with ABC10 as she walked us through the vicious attack. She had just returned from a visit to the hospital and says she's now afraid to leave her home.
Holding on tight to her walker, the grandmother took us down the same path she walked Sunday afternoon around 5 p.m. when a man and woman assaulted her.
She says a car with three people inside initially approached her asking to pray with her, but she told them no. She was sitting on the sidewalk off 42nd Street in South Sacramento.
"They left, then they came back. I was getting ready to go," said Thompson through tears.
She says the man and woman came up to her and started to attack her.
"He came over here and held my wrist with a chain. He had a chain, and she was pulling my hair. I said, 'Don't pull my hair, leave my hair alone,'" said Thompson.
When they finally left, Thompson says she noticed they had taken off with several of her necklaces. One of them was engraved with the face of her late grandson, Stephon Clark. Clark was killed by Sacramento police in her backyard in 2018 and the family says the necklace is priceless.
"It was $20,000, appraised at $16,000 and it was given to us by a local business here in Sacramento called Gold USA. They gave it to the family shortly after the death of my brother. Didn't know us. Seeing what happened to us, reached out and then everything happened and here we are," said Stephon's brother, Stevante Clark.
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Clark says this attack comes weeks after Stephon's House was burglarized in August. The stolen items were later returned.
"It's just horrendous. Incredulous that we have to go through this as a family. Again, time after time, after time, after time again it's something. And it's never like, we hate being on the news. I don't like doing this. Trust me I really hate this but anything we got to do to make sure we get justice in the community and accountability, we are going to do it," said Clark.
He's pleading with the community to return the necklaces, and they can anonymously drop the jewelry off at Stephon's House off Rosebud Lane.
"I'm pissed off. I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired and if anybody knows something, seen something, heard something, you better say something. Please," said Clark.
The family describes the car as light bluish-gray. They say it looked like an older car, possibly a Toyota.
The family also reported the crime to the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office.
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