DURHAM, N.C. -- Martin Eakes, co-founder of the $301 Self-Help Credit Union and its affiliate Center For Responsible Lending faces outpatient surgery to help recover from injuries he sustained in an attack when leaving work.
Eakes was attacked by four men in the lobby of a parking deck that Self-Help employees use, according to David Beck, a spokesman for Self-Help. Beck said the CU's employees use both a flat, open parking lot and the parking deck when that fills up. Eakes later told a local paper that the attackers "beat the tar" out of him and said that the attack appeared "disproportionate." But Beck said that neither Self-Help nor Eakes believed the attack had anything to do with Eakes' work at the CU.
Eakes drove himself to the emergency room after the attack and came into work the next day, Beck said.
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