Lengthy Seaside police are investigating any other stabbing of an blameless bystander two weeks after a person armed with a screwdriver attacked and stabbed a number of folks at a playground.
The most recent assault came about close to Alamitos Seaside subsequent to the Global Tower. A person and his female friend had been faced via any other guy that didn’t know, yelling and perilous them prior to pulling out a weapon and stabbing the person within the chest.
Neighbors say it’s simply any other instance of ways unsafe they really feel within the town and they would like extra to be accomplished.
“I’m scared, truthfully I am scared,” Sandra Hernandez mentioned.
Hernandez was once dismayed to listen to of the newest stabbing right here alongside Ocean Blvd Thursday, simply 17 days after a person armed with a screwdriver terrorized a playground, stabbing no less than two folks prior to being shot and arrested via police in Belmont Shores.
Police say that assault gave the impression to be unprovoked. Hernandez says she has observed those unproved assaults unclose.
Hernandez works at a fuel station off PCH and Magnolia the place she says she has been threatened a number of instances, attacked and robbed.
“I’m at paintings. I’ve to fret about my protection, however I even have to verify my daughters get house protected,” Hernandez mentioned. “It’s a continuing factor this is going round this house and I spotted it’s getting even worse.”
Since September of closing 12 months, a person was once stabbed to dying after being faced outdoor a homosexual bar off Broadway.
A month later, a lady looking ahead to the bus was once stabbed to dying via a person who stabbed a number of folks prior to being arrested on Alamitos seaside. In every case, unprovoked assaults.
After the playground assault in Might, neighbors say they’ve observed an building up of competitive folks roaming the streets and inflicting issues.
“It’s embarrassing to have this occur in our town,” mentioned Dave Sherlock, a Lengthy Seaside resident.
Mayor Rex Richardson visited the playground after that assault, met with the trade districts and touted the beefed up high quality of lifestyles groups operating with the unhoused and mentally challenged populations. However neighbors like Hernandez say it’s no longer sufficient.
“We see that not anything is being accomplished, so individuals are simply brushing it off, like adequate neatly subsequent time, I’ll simply try to continue to exist, with a bit of luck not anything occurs to me,” Hernandez mentioned.
NCB4 reached out to the mayor’s place of work for a remark and feature no longer heard again.
Police are proceeding to seek for the stabbing suspect on this newest assault. They’ve no longer launched any description of the suspect.
