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"Boom, he hit me with his fists, one time, two time, he hit me on both sides." Surabian said. Both of his eyes are badly bruised and nearly swollen shut. There are cuts on his cheeks and forehead from the force of the blows. Surabian runs a packing house next to his home. He had been working in his office next to the house for about half an hour. He says in that time, the burglar, or burglars made off with a big TV, other electronics and a couple of watches, before he came inside and was attacked.
"I was bleeding from my nose, my eyelids ... my face ... I can't find my glasses ... he busted my glasses." He said, recounting the attack.
About two hours later a Del Rey man came home to find someone in his house. The home had been ransacked and the burglar fled, shooting at the victim as he ran away. A nearby neighbor who did not want to be identified heard the shots.
"I was awakened to about six gunshots in succession and freaked me out. Because normally it's on the other side of town but this time it was right here." She said.
Sheriff's Deputy Chris Curtice said investigators don't know if these two incidents are related or if they are connected to other recent home invasion type robberies.
"Obviously we had one last week where the gentleman was out tending his cows, and when he came back in they were waiting for him." Curtice said.
In that incident near Dickinson and Central, the farmer was held at gunpoint, kicked and tied up by intruders. Curtice says there have been more than two dozen of these types of crimes in Fresno County this year. Dennis Surabian is hoping they catch whoever did this to him. He's facing surgery to his face and one eye, damaged by the beating.
Surabian said, "I don't look very good, but you know what, I'm a survivor."
