An assault captured on video shows a woman who finished using the bathroom at a Chicago-area gas station being repeatedly punched in the head by a male attendant as she tried to leave.
Nakeyah Smith slumps in front of a shelf as the employee, dressed in a neon visibility jacket, strikes her in the head.
'Open the door!' someone screams frantically in the video, which was filmed by a stranger and obtained by WBBM in Chicago.
The employee turned himself in two days after the incident, which sparked protests
An attendant repeatedly punches Nakeyah Smith in the head in video shot by a stranger
'Every time I close my eyes to go to sleep, that's just all I see,' Smith told the television station.
It is unclear from the report when the assault took place, though the attendant responsible for the attack turned himself in to Dolton police Tuesday afternoon.
Smith says she asked the man if she could use the bathroom at the 24-hour Shell gas station on 1445 E. Sibley Boulevard, 20 miles south of downtown Chicago.
He said no, but Smith went in after getting the OK from a female employee.
'She let me go to the bathroom,' she said.
Later, 'I hear him come from behind the counter and go to lock the door.'
Smith says she was trying to leave after using the bathroom when the employee attacked her
'Every time I close my eyes to go to sleep, that's just all I see,' she told WBBM in Chicago
