SANTA MONICA, Calif. (KABC) -- A woman on vacation with her husband in Santa Monica was viciously attacked at a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf by another woman.
The woman sat down next to the couple, appearing to yell profanities into a phone. Moments later, she got up, not holding a phone at all, and started describing a woman she wanted to attack.
That woman turned out to be Barbara Lowy. The woman grabbed Lowy's hair, spun her around and threatened to shoot her with a machine gun.
Lowy's husband punched the woman, who then ran out of the store and remained at large.
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The assault appeared to be random, but it left Lowy with serious injuries.
Reporter Elex Michaelson has the full details in the video above.