Terminally-ill woman beaten near St. Paul lake

A woman with terminal breast cancer was hospitalized Friday after she was beaten with baseball bats near Lake Phalen in St. Paul.

Tammie was attacked just after midnight near Johnson Parkway.

"I feel luck to be alive," she said. "I really feel they were trying to kill me."

Tammie's hands are broken in many places and her left middle finger was severed as she tried to fight off her attackers.

"There were two bats for sure," Tammie said. "Three Asian kids."

To combat terminal breast cancer, Tammie gets chemotherapy on Thursdays. She says the medicine makes her jittery and she gets relief by taking long walks around Lake Phalen.

St. Paul Police said the act of violence was random and are looking for people with information to step forward.

Laura, Tammie's sister, says she hopes someone will come forward.

"For her to spend any more days of her life healing from unnecessary wounds, you know, it's just taking away more days of her life," Laura said.

St. Paul Police are investigating the incident.

Those kids definitely need to spend time behind bars for that.

You know i Know that a lot of this stuff has to do with drugs, but a lot of this crap is having to do with teens but no drugs i just don't understand it why there doing it. And the hell of it all is that it is getting worse and worse as time goes by, i think that our justice system needs to stand up and lock these little creeps up as if they were getting charged with murder. (ex-stream sentencing)

I completely agree with you, Mike. The kids now days don't care about any one but themselves. Truly sad for this lady!

100% mike ...totally agree!!!

North Star wrote:

You know i Know that a lot of this stuff has to do with drugs, but a lot of this crap is having to do with teens but no drugs i just don't understand it why there doing it. And the hell of it all is that it is getting worse and worse as time goes by, i think that our justice system needs to stand up and lock these little creeps up as if they were getting charged with murder. (ex-stream sentencing)

And alot of it has to do with pure evil.