Aaron Brantley, an 86-year-old African-American World War II veteran, is resting in Detroit, after a daylight carjacking attack left him with a broken leg. What’s worse? As Brantley writhed in pain, people walked by and ignored the elderly man.

Brantley, a retired Chrysler plant worker and Air Corps veteran, was pumping gas into his new car at a BP gas station.

According to Brantley, all of a sudden, he was pushed to the ground from behind and robbed of his new Chrysler sedan, a replacement for a previously stolen vehicle.

The fall broke Brantley’s leg, forcing him to crawl across the gas station’s lot until an attendant helped him.

“I noticed when I was crawling to the gas station, people were walking past me like I wasn’t there,” Brantley said. “I said, Lord, have mercy.

Authorities were alerted but were late in arriving to the scene, so a customer drove Brantley home. Ambulances met Brantley at his residence and took him to a nearby hospital for treatment. Hours later, a man found Brantley’s car and Bible, which had his phone number inscribed on the inside. The car was left abandoned on the city’s East Side, missing its wheels and radio.

Even though his children have urged him to move from his beloved city, Brantley has refused.