Baloney. Anybody who knows the Middle Eastern psyche knows it wasn't random.
It's the reason why one of the men didn't want to be identified.
What’s more likely? A haji hunted him down in a bar in Sacramento at 0045 during a fight, or a young SM recently rocketed to international stardom—who likely also had had too much to drink—got into a bar fight over God-knows-what and some asshole stabbed him?