Daily Mail
April 23, 2014
A professor at Miami-Dade College was mercilessly beaten up at the Kendall campus last week, and he believes a spurned student may be to blame.
While Professor Marc Magellan didn’t recognize the assailant, nothing was stolen which leads him to think it was a hired hit.
‘There is nobody I can think of who would have wanted to attack me so brutally unless there was some sort of grudge or chip on their shoulder,’ Mr Magellan told the Miami Herald in an email. ‘In my business, the only people who hold grudges are the ones who I’ve had to drop or fail. It comes with the territory I guess.’
The attack happened April 15, just before 6pm in a campus parking garage, as the 31-year-old jazz and music history professor was leaving campus to go home.
He says he turned around when he heard a man call out ‘Professor Marc’ and that’s when he was hit with a sucker-punch to the face.
The hit took him so by surprise that he was knocked to the ground, where the attacker continued to beat him up ‘unmercifully’ against the pavement.
At one point, Mr Magellan says the assailant, who he didn’t recognize as a student, ‘was powerfully punching the side of my head against the concrete floor of the garage’.
Mr Magellan suffered a broken nose, broken hand and other injuries to his head, face, arms, knees and feet before the attacker fled, speeding off in a blue sports car.
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