A 14-year-old boy set out for an evening ride on the San Francisquito Creek Trail expecting nothing more than a quick spin with a friend. Instead, he ended the night bruised, shaken and clutching video of a stranger stomping on his bike and threatening to kill him.

The teen, who asked not to be identified, told KTLA he and a friend were riding their e-bikes at dusk on Sept. 17 when they nearly collided with a man pedaling ahead of them in the dark. Startled, one of the boys let out a scream before the pair steered around him and continued down the path.

They thought the encounter was over. Instead, the man gave chase.

Moments later, the boy said, the cyclist caught up and launched into a violent attack. “While he was on top of me he just said he was going to kill me,” the teen recalled.

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