Homelessness advocate attacked, assaulted by homeless woman [Video]

DECATUR, Ala. (WHNT) — A homeless advocate says she is still recovering from her injuries weeks after an attack at her homeless services facility in Decatur.

Sue Terrell of Hands Across Decatur (HAD) sustained multiple injuries after she was first attacked inside the facility by a woman who came in looking for services. She says when she finally received assistance and managed to get her attacker outside, the assault did not stop.

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“She got me three more times in the face and the head and the DPD (Decatur Police Department) showed up and we called 911,” Terrell said.

Terrell told News 19 that she went to the hospital with a concussion and facial bruises.

“And a good-sized black eye. I didn’t go down and I didn’t hit her back,” she explained.

Terrell says the day of the attack, her morning, started as it has for the past 12 years. She …