A 14-year-old boy was viciously punched twice in the face by a passing dirtbike rider as he attempted to cross a road in Melton West last week.
Logan (pictured) remembers the impact of the punch and striking his head on the ground, but has no recollection of anything until he woke in hospital hours later.
“I don’t remember how I came home, but I got home and I [apparently] slept for a little bit,” Logan says.
“It was getting dark and I started panicking, so I went over to my neighbour’s house – she said I was screaming and hysterical – and I told her what I could comprehend at that point.
“She called the police, they asked me a few questions, then I fell to the floor and hit my head again … the next thing I remember is waking up at hospital.”
Logan told police he was going to cross West Melton Drive, near the James Cook Drive intersection, about 7pm on February 14 when he saw two motorbikes – a stunt bike and a dirt bike – driving towards him. He said he stepped back onto the nature strip to avoid them.
The driver of the stunt bike swerved around him but the dirt bike rider stopped and asked him what he thought he was doing.
Logan said the rider punched him to the ground, then picked him up and punched him a second time. Both riders fled when they noticed a car coming.
Logan’s mum Shannon Galloway, who was at a concert at the time of the assault, says she wants the bike riders brought to justice.
“Obviously, Logan shouldn’t have been out – we told him not to go out – but it wasn’t late, he wasn’t doing anything particularly wrong, and he certainly didn’t deserve what happened to him,” she says.
Logan was required to stay in hospital overnight and still has short term memory loss.
Police are searching for a male, described as being aged in his mid-30s, tall, with a solid build and facial hair.
He was wearing a white and blue coloured Fox helmet and fluro orange goggles and was riding a black and yellow dirt bike.
The second rider was riding a ‘naked’ stunt bike, similar to a Pee Wee 50. He has been described as aged in his 20s, with a thin build.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
