Police are looking for a woman who deliberately coughed on a baby in a stroller at a restaurant following a verbal altercation with the child's mother.
The incident occurred in the afternoon of June 12 at approximately 5:25 p.m. at a Yogurtland establishment in San Jose, California, when the suspect, a woman described as a white female in her 60s, was standing in line in front of a mother and her 1-year-old child, who was in a stroller, when she allegedly became upset with the mother for not maintaining proper social distancing.
“The preliminary investigation revealed the suspect was upset the female was not maintaining proper social distancing, so the suspect removed her face mask, got close to the baby’s face, and coughed 2-3 times,” said Sergeant Enrique Garcia in a press release from the San Jose Police Department.
Mora said that her son had a slight fever after the coughing incident but that he is doing okay and she is hopeful that he doesn’t contract coronavirus.
“If he were to get sick, it’s just, I can’t even imagine,” Mora said.
The San Jose Police Department are asking the public for help identifying the female suspect involved in the case.
