WOIO in a segment that aired Tuesday. The man behind him overheard the exchange, followed Utz off the bus, and began threatening him.“He’s like, ‘I don’t care what you say, it’s how you act.
You say those kind of words, it’ll get you killed out here!’ I’m like, ‘What are you talking about?’” Utz recalled.The man pulled out a chain and began hitting one of Utz’s legs with it, in front of three witnesses at the bus stop.
The attacker then took a bike down from the front of the bus and fled. Utz’s ankle was swollen, so police took him to an emergency room for examination.“It’s still swollen; I can barely walk,” Utz said. “I had to use [an] air cast for almost four or five days.