13-year-old knocked unconscious in Newark bus stop attack
When she got off the bus at the Broad Street and Market Street stop, she said she encountered a man who appeared to be talking to himself.
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A young girl was attacked and knocked unconscious at a bus stop in Newark on Tuesday.
"I thought he was about to kill me. I was thinking I was going to die because when I passed out, I don't know what happened. I felt like I was really going to die out there. No adult, nobody helped me," said 13-year-old Kaymiah Graham.
Graham was coming home from school Tuesday afternoon, on her way to pick up her niece.
When she got off the bus at the Broad Street and Market Street stop, she said she encountered a man who appeared to be talking to himself.
"He looked at me. Me and him locked eyes, and then he basically ran, was walking up to me. I was backing up so I could take my bookbag off," the 13-year-old said. "He grabbed me by my hair, pulled my head down. He hit me all in my face, and the two that were with us and my cousin, they had to get him off me, like get him to the floor and I fell with him and he also tried to kick me in my face."
Kaymiah told News 12 she tried to get the attention of nearby police.
"They asked us what he had on, and we started explaining it to them, and they pulled off," she said.
Tara Lee, Graham's mother, said she met up with her daughter at the police station later in the day to file a report.
"EMS and all of that was called then at the precinct, never was called on Broad and Market, none of that," Lee said.
Kaymiah, who is still suffering significant injuries to her face, took to social media to find her attacker.
"Thank you for Facebook because we wound up finding out who the guy was. We went to his house," Lee said. "I wanted to sit out there and I wanted to make sure that the police was going to come and lock this guy up."
The Newark Department of Public Safety (DPS) told News 12 it arrested 29-year-old Williams Daryon in connection to the incident on Friday.
It said Daryon faces charges of endangering the welfare of a child and aggravated assault.
When asked about the allegation of driving away while Kaymiah was giving her statement, a representative for Newark DPS said it would have to be investigated further internally.
