Report: Jockey Angel Suarez shot after bizarre rampage outside Philadelphia

A jockey seemingly headed for stardom is in critical condition in a Pennsylvania hospital after being shot during a series of bizarre and disconcerting events Sunday night, hours after winning the seventh race at Parx, a track outside Philadelphia.

Angel Suarez, 21, was shot after reportedly assaulting two people in an apartment complex.

According to Philly.com: Bensalem police say Suarez climbed onto a second-floor deck at the apartment complex, where he masturbated until a woman inside discovered him and called 9-1-1.

As the woman ran to a neighbor's apartment, Suarez busted through her sliding glass door, fled outside again by diving out her second-floor bedroom window and then broke into another nearby apartment, where he assaulted two people, said Lt. William McVey of Bensalem Police.

One resident grabbed his legally registered gun and shot Suarez in the chest and abdomen. Even then, Suarez didn't stop struggling until police subdued him, McVey said.

Suarez is in critical condition, in an induced coma, according to his agent, Dave Yannuzzi. The agent said Suarez has already undergone surgery and faces more procedures for damage to his liver and pancreas.

"It's not him; it's not characteristic of him," Tommy Pointer, an agent who represented him for a year, told the website. "The kid lives and breathes horses. He's one of the greatest, nicest, most well-spoken and clean-cut kids you'll ever meet in your life."

Yannuzzi agreed: "He looks like a freaking altar boy. And he's nicer than he looks."

Pointer, Yannuzzi and others speculated that Suarez used some substance like bath salts or PCP, notorious for turning users into rampaging maniacs, even as they swore he wasn't known to dabble in drugs.

"The kid weighs 110 pounds and he took two .45-caliber bullets. Who gets shot twice with a .45 and keeps fighting? He had to be on something," Pointer said.

Yannuzzi said Suarez's girlfriend told him he was acting oddly and nursing a red drink when he briefly stopped home before setting off on his alleged crime spree.