Elderly Man Assaulted on Bus Succumbs to Head Trauma
An 82-year-old man who was assaulted by a teenager following an incident on a Milwaukee County bus in March died last Monday as a result of the attack.
The Daily Journal reports that Abbas Yasin sustained traumatic brain injury as a result of the assault.
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The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner says the death of Yasin is being investigated as a homicide, according to the article. Yasin was assaulted March 17 after he was involved in a confrontation on the bus
The medical examiner says in the article that Yasin was pronounced dead last Monday at St. Mary’s Hospital in Milwaukee.
An autopsy has been performed, but the cause of death is pending.
Family and friends gathered to say goodbye to Yasin at Milwaukee’s Islamic Da’wa Center on May 11, according to a Fox 6 article.
“He was a person that tried to call people to do what was good,” Yaseen Domineck, Imam at Masjid Ar-Rahman told Fox 6.
Willie Perry, executive director of the Islamic Da’wa Center said Yasin was a pillar of the community for almost 50 years and that he’s been an upstanding individual and a role model at the center.
Friends say Yasin was the kind of guy who would have stepped up had someone else on that bus been threatened.
“He’s a trained martial artist as well. I think he’s about a fourth degree black belt. And so it’s in his nature to…come to the defense and aid of those in need,” Perry said in the article.
About 10 percent of all TBIs are due to assaults, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Assault-related traumatic brain injuries accounted for 3 percent of TBIs in children less than 15 years of age and 1.4 percent of TBIs in adults 65 years and older from 2006 to 2010.
About 75 percent of all assaults associated with TBI occur in persons 15 to 44 years of age.
