A twenty-year-old who lives in University City, Justin David Hood, has been charged with first-degree assault for the attempted robbery and attack of a Delmar Loop bartender on August 23, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.The man, Jimmy Muckle, was attacked while he walked to work in broad daylight, according to KSDK. Muckle, a bartender at Three Kings Public House, told KSDK he was "lucky to be alive."
Muckle said he was "listening to music in my headphones, playing with my phone, not paying attention, and out of nowhere knocked to the ground and kind of bludgeoned my face area."
The attackers approached the victim in the 7000 block of Stanford Avenue, which is just a few blocks north of Delmar and west of the Loop.…