ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The flashbacks keep coming weeks after a brutal attack outside a downtown Albuquerque thrift shop. Two elderly men – and the store manager – are still recovering from that incident. Police are still looking for the suspect accused of the unprovoked violence.

“When we had some horrible hate crime happen right in front of our store, which, I am so shaken, I still am,” said Lori Van Note with St. John’s Thrift Shop. “Someone hit – crashed into the window. And it looked like a fight had started right there. And I just thought, oh no, not today, not in front of my store.”

She rushed outside to find an attack in progress.

“I told this guy to get the hell out of here, get the hell out of here right now,” Van Note said. “He cussed me out, he started cussing me out and walking towards me.”

She ran inside to call the police and ran back out just in time to see him leaving.

“That’s when I turned around and I realized who he had hit,” Van Note said.

The man had assaulted two 80-year-old men who had worked in the shop for decades. Hugh had a broken femur and a fractured jaw, and the other man – who didn’t want to be identified – had injuries to his face.

“I just tried to pick up one of them but he wasn’t responding and I was, I was just in shock,” Van Note said.

Then came the next blow – waiting almost half an hour for police to respond.

“I know they’re stretched thin, but we’re not very far from the main police hub right here,” she said. “We have a fire station that’s only a few blocks from us. But it still took like about 28 minutes for them to get there.”

Police later said that suspect, Brian Eisenbeis, is also a suspect in another unprovoked attack that happened nearby. Investigators believe Eisenbeis attacked a woman that was jogging just blocks away around 12th and Silver.

“I want him off the streets, I really think that he’s, if he stays out there, he’ll do this again. I have a feeling he’s done it before,” Van Note said. “It may have made us pause for a minute, but I don’t think it’s ever gonna stop us.”

There’s still the question about whether this is being investigated as a hate crime because the suspect reportedly used some hate speech before the attack. If you see or recognize Eisenbeis, call police.

You can donate to the victim’s recovery through the Cathedral of St. John, just mention the thrift shop when you donate.