John Alle, founder of the Santa Monica Coalition was beaten by a transient and needed brain, jaw and head surgeries.
Early Friday Morning, Palisades resident and a Santa Monica store owner John Alle sent the following email:
Friday morning at 8:30 a.m. I’ll be face-to-face in a courtroom for the first time in a Preliminary Hearing with the transient addict (with a long rap sheet) who lay in wait on the grassy area of Santa Monica’s Palisades Park, and attempted to kill me on a sunny afternoon last September 19 at 3 p.m. The assailant was high on meth, and demanded my wallet and phone ( I was on 10-minute break from work). The assailant verbally stated he would kill me if he didn’t get both.
By the grace of God, I survived blind-sided sucker punches to my head and was knocked unconscious. I was kicked by the same junkie 17 times in the head before paramedics arrived 30 minutes later. My phone camera and audio were on and captured the attacker’s words, and showed me fall unconscious to the ground, and the phone itself flying into the air.
Santa Monica Police Officers caught the suspect 30 minutes later alongside the 3rd Street Promenade. Paramedics transported me to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Trauma Center in Westwood where I stayed until the early hours of the next morning. The same dedicated Santa Monica Police officers who located the suspect drove later to UCLA to check on my condition and personally return my phone and wallet.
Having recovered from two head and jaw surgeries, and two major life-threatening brain surgeries a month apart, seven months ago, I am now fully recovered and ready to speak out for all victims of crime – and those residents ignored and forgotten by Santa Monica’s two former Mayors, Sue Himmelrich and Gleam Davis, current Mayor Phil Brock, City Manager David White, and City Councilmembers.
The suspect was identified as Tyler Jordan Keating.
The attempted murderer is insignificant to me. While I forgive my assailant, I believe he must be held accountable for his actions. I was his 17th victim. There must be no additional victims, injuries or fatalities as a result of this deranged person.
Sadly, in 2023 Santa Monica Police were called an average of 13 times a day to respond to assaults, overdoses, and other crimes in each of Santa Monica’s Downtown Parks. This year’s numbers are worse.
Tomorrow, I will be in a courtroom with dedicated and hard working professional Los Angeles County District Attorneys who want to see justice done, but whose boss, current LA County District Attorney George Gascon, wants to let the attacker off for time served.
Keep me and all of Santa Monica’s (and our country’s) residents, business owners, employees and tourists in your thoughts and prayers. Many are not as fortunate as me.
Santa Monica, behind only LA’s Skid Row and MacArthur Park, is the third largest hub for meth and fentanyl sales, use and overdoses in all of LA County’s 88 cities. Santa Monica ranks as one of the most dangerous and crime-ridden cities of any size in all of California.
Criminals and appointed or elected office holders must be held accountable. Are we better off and safer than we were two or four years ago?
Sadly, by the time my Preliminary Hearing ends tomorrow, Santa Monica’s Mayor and City Council will have again permitted LA County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer, The Venice Family Clinic, and possibly other “non-profit” agencies to continue to hand out glass pipes and other drug paraphernalia in Santa Monica’s Palisades, Reed and Tongva Parks.
God gave me more time to live and serve. I’m thankful, will use my time and resources wisely, and in His name.
This sign is on the Third Street Promenade, which used to be a popular tourist destination.
Alle sent this update on Saturday.
The Judge wants to put this attacker into a diversion program. The hearing and the preliminary hearing were moved to September 10.
I explained to the Judge that the attacker had done the same thing 13 times over the last three years in San Diego, San Clemente, Santa Monica, Ventura County and Santa Barbara. The attacker skipped out on two other diversion programs.
I did some research and in Santa Monica 66% of people who sign up for diversion programs to get out of going to jail never show up and they get out of the system completely. I feel like that’s what will happen here. I told the judge we can’t afford to have one more citizen and resident of Santa Monica or LA County accosted or killed.
Alle said the judge heard a case before his that involved an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who stole $49,000 from the Versace store in Beverly Hills. It was a felony, but the judge agreed to reduce it to a misdemeanor and said he would expunge it from her record if she paid it back in two years. I don’t call that justice.
In my case the DA’s who were nice. They acknowledged they heard and saw more video of the suspect telling me he was going to kill me but said getting a conviction on attempted murder was a challenge. And they said the Judge would question whether I was kicked nine times or 17 times while on the ground unconscious.
NATHAN HOCHMAN FOR LA COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Bring sanity back to Los Angeles!
NATHAN HOCHMAN FOR LA COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Perhaps if Gascon were forced to occupy a tent in Venice or Santa Monica…
Does anyone have any suggestions on how we can take action to counter these prosecutors and/or judges from allowing recidivists from being released to continue to their criminally activity? Who can we vote out? What measures may be on the ballot that we can support?
SICK, SICK, SICK. What do the authorities need to see or hear before they acknowledge
AND punish offenders who steal, beat and even kill innocent citizens. Punish by taking them out of the community for as long as the law allows. Surely there is not law that says “give him a talking to” and let him go free….or send him to classes where he will learn how to behave.
Life is getting harder and harder to live without fear each time you walk out your door.
Please let me serve on that jury!
Maybe all the judges, all the elected officials in Los Angeles and Santa Monica and Gascon who believe in “diversion programs”, should be sentenced to spend 24 hours – 36 hours living on the street with these homeless people and criminals they insist only need their behavior “understood” or “diverted”. Spending time with them with no outside private protection, phone or police to see what it is really like. Now that would be a dream. Maybe they would wake up to this nightmare.
These judges and other government officials must be held accountable. What they are doing is dereliction of duty, they are responsible for putting the hard-working, taxing paying, law abiding citizens in harms way. We should file a class action lawsuit to put a stop to this finally.
Unbelievable. Actually, not that unbelievable. The judge involved should be removed. $49,000. is not a misdemeanor by any stretch of the imagination. And why does the question of how many times a person was kicked when the results were so horrifying for the victim. Billions of dollars for the betterment of our citizens have been squandered by those in charge for quite some time. Too many drug addicts, too many criminals, too many homeless. What are they doing with the money? When will someone or someones step up and make some difficult and likely unpopular decisions about this mess?
I want to say that the SMPD are amazing and probably THE best police force, out there. I’m also a Phil Brock fan. He’s straight forward and solid. The solution to these issues is fairly obvious and slightly controversial. If a prison can feed, shelter and treat illness, then we desperately need something to that effect. A facility, specifically geared towards the vagrancy issue and mentally ill. There’s plenty of land and inexpensive construction methods. Arrested and taken off the streets, with medical care, perhaps we make a difference in all of our lives, for the better good. If a prison can operate , profitably, then Santa Monica can be innovatve and do things better. We have always been innovative as part of our culture.
I suggest all 3 major news stations be contacted. This is not justice. I realize that it costs a significant amount to keep someone in jail. Past behavior is a major predictor of future behavior. Maybe the TV stations could embarrass the prosecution and judge to act responsibly and keep him in jail.
What can we do to help?
Please read my comment, above, for the obvious solution
John Alle’s attacker’s hearing is Sept. 10. Tyler Jordan Keating DOB: 2/17/89 can be looked up on lasd.org. The public needs to let this Judge know we will be watching.