Woman arrested after five stabbed on California-bound Greyhound bus: police

Fox News ^ | 3/6/2018 | Ryan Gaydos

[simpson96]

A woman was arrested Monday after a stabbing on a Greyhound bus in California left five injured, police said.

Teresa Ann Andrade Madrigal, 48, was arrested and charged with five counts of assault with a deadly weapon, one count of false imprisonment and another count of child endangerment, the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

Officials said Madrigal was aboard the bus heading from Las Vegas to Oakland when she began to act erratically. The sheriff’s office said the bus driver stopped the bus and asked the woman to get off so he could talk to her. After speaking with Madrigal, the bus driver determined she was calm enough to drive, according to Fox 26 Fresno.

Police said as the bus was driving through Tulare, Madrigal walked toward the back of the bus, grabbed a 3-year-old girl and held her at knifepoint. The girl’s mother immediately began fighting with Madrigal and was stabbed in the abdomen, police said.

"I woke up to screaming: 'I’m gonna kill this baby!' She had the baby in her hand and was hitting the baby, hitting the baby. Mother started screaming, pulled baby away from her, then screams, 'She’s got a knife! She’s got a knife!'" Tanya Wright, a bus passenger, told Fox 26 Fresno.

Spencer Williams, another passenger, told the station that he thought it was a joke at first until he saw the suspect holding the knife to the baby’s throat.

Two other men and the bus driver fought with Madrigal until they were able to wrestle the child away from her, police said.

[Grampa Dave]

Only allow butter knives with a maximum of a 2.5 inch blade. The blade must have a curved blade end with no sharp points.

Before anyone can buy an approved butter knife, they must be legal citizens, 21 years old and pass the same background check we have to pass to buy a gun.

After purchase, the new owner must attend and pass a 4 week safety course. Then, they can carry their new butter knife in an exposed holster with approved safety snaps. They must store the knives in an approved knife safe in their homes.

No Butter knives will be allowed within 300 yards of any school, church, mosque or public meeting places or public transportation sites or method of public transportation.

[monocle]

What about ceramic knives?

[Songcraft]

And made of plastic.

       

[Grampa Dave]

Maybe a flexible plastic like the rubber knives we played with while we were kids.

[Songcraft]

Yes, that’s even better!

[HotHunt]

Another mass attack on a Greyhound bus.

Assailant realized she couldn't use her gun on the bus because it was a gun-free zone.

So she did what good little criminals do, she avoided shooting up the place and, instead, pulled out her knife and started stabbing people.

See? Gun-free zones work just fine as a deterrent to those wanting to kill or harm people.

[EdnaMode]

Bus and knife control now!

[EdnaMode]

Ban swords too.

[cpdiii]

“When the Left pushes rocket trains to get from city to city”

Do not want to ride it. You would be in an airless tube inside a sealed capsules. If you had a rupture due to failure or sabotage that capsule would become a very high speed projectile. You would go splat.

[gunsequalfreedom]

Exactly! Someone tell me why we need knives that have a sharp point?

[hal ogen]

It is bad enough if you have to take a bus anywhere...now they stab you? Great. Just great...

[shotgun]

“Only crazy people ride the bus”.

I usually only apply this to public bus transportation, but it fits this situation pretty well.

[SgtHooper]

“After speaking with Madrigal, the bus driver determined she was calm enough to drive, according to Fox 26 Fresno.”

I see, so the drivers switched up?

[oldasrocks]

The knifes are not at fault. Only naked people should be allowed on buses or airplanes for that matter. Strip them down, run em through a cattle dip wash, metal detector, body cavity search and then a metal detector just for safety.