No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

A 63-year-old man is fighting for his life in San Bernardino, Calif. after being brutally attacked by two men he held a door open for.

According to The Press-Enterprise, Nathan Macon was holding the door open for the suspects when one made an unknown comment toward him. Words were exchanged and the two men began punching Nathan, knocking him to the ground outside the store and continued to punch and kick him as he was down. Nathan suffered severe head trauma and remains in critical condition.

That was last Thursday.

Yesterday, Jerome Walker, 22, and Milton Walker, 21, surrendered, telling cops they had no "intention of doing that kind of harm."

In statements following their arrest, the suspects said that as Nathan Macon opened the store's door, he slammed it on one of their feet. Detectives say surveillance video doesn't clearly show that occurring.

"They went back and forth, basically saying, 'You better watch out,' " Carr said.

Milton Walker threw the first punch, Carr said. Jerome joined in, investigators allege, with both punching and kicking Macon after he was knocked to the pavement.

"They said it had something to do with him not being respectful," said Sgt. Dave Dillon. "There might have been words said, but nothing that deserved what happened."

"That's just showing courtesy," Walter Lee Macon said of his brother holding the door open. "But some people, you can't be nice to."

Both Jerome and Milton told cops Macon pulled a weapon on them but one said he had a knife while the other said he had a gun. (No weapon was found at the scene.)




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