A 10-year-old boy hit with an aluminum baseball bat Tuesday, while walking home from the library on Germantown Street, is out of a hospital after undergoing a CAT scan on Wednesday.

The victim, who with his mother spoke with News Center 7 on Wednesday night, was treated at Children's Medical Center of Dayton.

He told police that he and a 14-year-old were at the library where they noticed three other juveniles who would become the suspects in the incident. The victim and second juvenile left the building through the front door, he said.

The three suspects left through a back door. Once outside, one of them yelled, "Where do you think you're going?"

The victim said he did not respond. The three suspects chased the two victims and the 10-year-old said he was struck on the right side of his face with the bat. He said that was the only time he was hit, and that the suspects also hit a dog with the bat.

A witness told police the attackers picked up the bat in a nearby yard. A man whosaid he had come outside to check on his dog scared away the three, who the witness said fled east on Lakewood Avenue.

The victim said he had never seen the three juveniles before and did not talk to them at the library. The suspect who reportedly  used the bat was described as wearing a blue and black jacket, and wore his hair in an Afro. The other two were wearing black jackets. 

The boy’s mother, Carla Scott, told News Center 7 that another boy was attacked in a similar fashion a month ago and was made to strip to his socks.

“It’s not safe for my son to walk in his own neighborhood,” she said.