Knockout Game News Story: A couple who claim they were victims of a brutal "knockout game" in a Charlottesville, Va., mall say they are being all but ignored by police.

Jeanne Doucette and Marc Adams, the knockout game victims, were attacked on Friday, Dec. 20, just outside the Wells Fargo building at around 1 a.m. They say three men attacked them in what looked like a random act of violence. Over a week later, Charlottesville police have no suspects.

Doucette took pictures of the incident and says there were other witnesses to the crime. She says the police haven't shared her images.

Doucette said "I cannot understand why they didn't let people know what happened. Those pictures might have prompted some tips."

Doucette photos seem to corroborate the story. They show three black males, each about six feet tall, in their mid-twenties to early thirties. One man is standing over Adams, who is lying on the ground. A spokesperson says the police did not release the pictures because they believed surveillance video from the bank might offer clearer images. Police requested the bank video on Friday, December 27, a week after the attack.

Adams suffered a concussion, a broken ankle, cracked ribs and had one of his teeth knocked out. Doucette suffered head bruises and tearing of the cartilage in her ear.

Doucette told local media that she responded to the attack quickly, but Adams got the worst of it. She said "I came up and pushed him away and said, 'What are you doing?' The guy hits me repeatedly in the ear. My earring was stabbing me in the head over and over."

She said the assailant was joined by two other men. They were with a woman who was yelling at them to stop.

Doucette said "When he'd tell them to stop hitting me, they'd hit me twice."

Doucette said the couple tried to escape, but the assailants seemed to be enjoying the attack. She said "They were laughing, high-fiving, hugging, and then returning to kick him. There was some kind of camaraderie to it."

Adams says "Maybe if we had played dead, they would have stopped. If the point of the knockout game is to knock out, we kept getting up to help each other. We didn't play right."

Doucette called the Charlottesville Police Department on December 29 to follow up on the investigation. She was told the case was suspended and that no detective was assigned to it.

Doucette says "It's like they don't care. I don't understand why they couldn't even have the courtesy to call and say we're not even going to look for them."