DOWNEY, Calif. (KABC) — A joyride in an ambulance ended with a high-speed wreck and a truck flipped on its facet, and it began with a lethal stabbing in one other metropolis.
Minutes earlier than the Downey Metropolis Library opened on Saturday morning, an argument steps from the entrance door turned lethal.
“The gents had been arguing proper exterior right here. One man pulled out a knife — the man that had the flannel — and began simply stabbing the opposite gentleman. The gentleman fell down, and as soon as the gentleman fell down, he went for yet one more strike to the neck, and that is the place the blood… , that occurred,” mentioned witness Abraham Mancilla.
Downey police say the assault occurred round 9:30 a.m. Whereas first responders had been on the scene shortly, the sufferer didn’t survive.
Police say the suspect, a 23-year-old homeless man, took off operating, however was later caught a number of hundred yards away at Downey Excessive College, which is on the again facet of the library.
Downey police towed a Tesla and a motorbike away from the stabbing scene. Witnesses imagine the automobiles belong to the sufferer within the murder, and so they even have cause to imagine the homicide was captured on digicam.
The deadly stabbing occurred proper subsequent to the EV charging stations exterior of the Downey Metropolis Library. The proprietor of a Tesla parked exterior on the time informed Eyewitness Information that investigators reviewed video from his automobile, which he believes exhibits your complete assault.
Neighbors say the car parking zone is all the time busy, and the stabbing occurred proper as half a dozen folks had been charging their automobiles.
As first responders tried to avoid wasting the sufferer, one other man, fully unrelated to the assault, stole the Downey Hearth Division ambulance that was parked on the scene of the crime. He then sped out of the car parking zone, which occurs to be shared by Metropolis Corridor and Downey police.
“It ended up simply sort of swerving, and it had about 12 cop automobiles behind it. By the point I acquired right here to fulfill the youngsters, fortunately, they weren’t right here but. The scene was there, I imply, simply blood all over the place,” Mancilla mentioned.
After a 10-mile chase, the suspect within the stolen ambulance crashed into a number of parked automobiles in a neighborhood in Alhambra.
Video from the scene exhibits a parked automobile on its facet and front-end harm to the stolen ambulance. No accidents had been reported within the crash, Downey police mentioned.
It was a weird and complicated sight for witnesses within the neighborhood.
“I didn’t understand it was a automobile chase earlier than, however I assumed it was very odd,” Alan Kwong mentioned.
The suspect accused of stealing the ambulance — a 52-year-old man — was arrested with out incident, in accordance with police.
Neighbors say he did not go quietly.
“After I got here again, he was nonetheless screaming. He is nonetheless screaming within the automobile, within the police SUV, proper now, even proper now,” Kwong mentioned.
At this level, no names of anybody concerned have been launched, and police haven’t launched any details about the homicide sufferer or a possible motive within the case.
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