Tragedy in California as a 32-year-old California fights for her life after suffering a brutal beating during a robbery at the beauty shop she manages.

Marlene Sandoval suffered severe injury as she tried to fight off four women who were robbing the M Beauty store.

Surveillance video shows Sandoval on the ground outside being beaten and thrown to the ground by the group of assailants.

The footage shows Sandoval collapsing to the ground as she tried to stand. The suspects fled in a white sedan and remain at large at press time. The victim suffered two heart attacks in as many days and is now in a medically induced coma.

Her family told reporters that she now needs a heart transplant.

The store owner, Daniel Min, told NBC 4, "We just want justice for Marlene and her family. We are just hoping and praying for the best and for her recovery, and for her to come back."

"This isn't how California used to be. I think our state's judicial system definitely needs to change," Min told the media. "How the DA prosecutes these individuals should definitely be more aggressive and put these people where they're supposed to be, like in jail."

"I can't sleep. I can't concentrate on the everyday things I have to do because I'm worried about my little daughter," her father Enrique said.

"She is my sunshine. She is the sunshine of my life," he told NBC 7. "It's incredible they don't care about the life of the other person. It was a brutal attack on my daughter."

"Those girls are having no respect for human beings," he told Fox 11. "My daughter she is very very responsible for where she works. So she blocked the exit at the store trying to stop those girls with the merchandise."

"We are praying every day and every night," continued Enrique.