She looks pretty banged up. Sucks.

@1: he.

the attacker sounds like a street crazy. a sweatshirt with sandals?

@1 & 2: They. It's in the article multiple times.

Not chastising, just informing.

BTW Stranger editors, what's your in-house style guideline on noun-verb agreement for third-person singular "they"? From my perspective, there are at least two errors my once-a-copy-editor-always-a-copy-editor eyes spotted:

Paragraph 2 Sentence 1: "before they were assaulted"
Should read: "before they was assaulted"

P4 S1: "since they were attacked"
S/r: "since they was attacked"

Combining a conventionally-plural pronoun with conventionally-plural verb forms when referring to a singular subject seems likely to mislead readers. It's also completely unnecessary, since there is an alternative that is both less ambiguous and more consistent with established grammar conventions.

Sure, it feels awkward to say "they was", but if avoiding linguistic awkwardness were the goal, we wouldn't be using "they" in this context at all.

Interested in your perspective...I'm learning!