Posted on 04/20/2018 5:49:37 PM PDT by Pelham
VENTURA, Calif. (KABC) -- A man was stabbed in the neck while holding his young daughter on his lap while dining at a restaurant on the Ventura Promenade.
Ventura police received multiple calls around 9:20 p.m. Wednesday about a stabbing at the Aloha Steakhouse at 364 S. California St.
Police said the victim and his wife were having dinner along with their 5-year-old daughter at the time of the attack, which appeared to be unprovoked.
Investigators said there was no altercation or contact prior to the attack, and the victim and suspect did not appear to know each other.
When officers arrived at the scene, they found a group of good Samaritans standing along the Ventura Promenade who had chased the suspect from the crime scene onto the beach, investigators said.
Officers tracked down the suspect and ordered him to the ground. He complied and was detained on suspicion of attempted homicide.
Police identified the suspect as 49-year-old Jamal Jackson, describing him as a local vagrant.
While Jackson was being taken into custody, other responding officers found the victim at the crime scene, suffering from a life-threatening stab wound to the neck. The officers rendered first aid to the man until medical responders arrived on scene.
The victim was transported to a local hospital to be taken immediately into surgery. Following surgery, the victim was listed to be in critical condition.
The manager of the Ventura restaurant said the victim's family called to thank them and the good Samaritans who took action during the stabbing.
A motive in the stabbing was not immediately known, police said.
Haven't you disgraced yourself enough on this thread? A man is dead, for crying out loud.
Sometimes it's best to put the shovel down and just walk away.
If this had happened in Chicago, probably no one would be so angry with me.
You’re exactly the type that gives conservatives a bad name. Judgemental, arrogant, mean, intolerant, lacking compassion, no common sense, impressed with your own “self-perceived importance”. You’re the type that becomes the president of an HOA telling everyone else how they have to live and behave.
To me, that sound like you.
My two oldest girls were born at Mercy in Coconut Grive in 88 and 89
We moved out in 1994
We still go back to Miami Beach occasionally
South beach is rurnt
Thug life
Amazing
An example of the cops paralyzed by being called racist fear
You are trying to force me to be "politically correct" by attacking me personally. That's what the media does to President Trump and his supporters. Just let me have my own opinion - which is, the 5-yr-old child should have been home in bed.
I wrote a few scathing all caps posts and deleted them
Still stunning to look over the thread this afternoon and review posts still standing
I would add.....this is not a shock
A young hipster dad...killed by a maniac we let roam our streets
imagine how anyone can have that take on such a tragic event from which at least three people will never recover from
Yes rely on cops to save you right
My younger ones do that too
Late at night when mom goes to bed
Usually in summer
Ill be watching some documentary on YouTube on Apple TV
Theyll want to go ride around late which may mean ice cream or McDonalds
We might cruise or walk downtown franklin TN which is historic and eerie late at night all the antebellum houses
Or go see the confederate cemetery which. Late night with. Moon
Scary
Or just some old weaving country tree covered lane while they pick the music
Now Ive only got one left who wants to do things like that
My daughters a decade or so earlier were no different
+1x1000
Yes rely on cops to save you right
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You are putting words in my mouth.
This murderer was reported to the police before the stabbing. That was the only way to stop it. They were too busy to show up.
This was an ambush. Even if the victim was armed it wouldn’t have helped.
I Should have used the sarcasm tag
It totally baffles me that someone who calls herself a conservative can be so callous and have such disregard to the crime that was committed and focus on bedtime. She’s ultimately blaming the father for being attacked not the criminal. Totally warped thinking. So glad that my mind doesn’t think that way. I’m sitting here praying for the little girl and her mother and only blaming Jamal Jackson for this tragedy. I bet she also blames rape victims for the clothing they wear or where they are when attacked. Sick and perverse!!!!
Nope, gossiping about you behind your back would be freepmailing people about you. What I have to say about you, I’m willing to say on this open forum. I find you blaming the parents of this tragedy rather than the criminal, Jamal Jackson, absolutely reprehensible and I also find it also reprehensible that you call yourself a conservative.
Really, don't be so unfair.
Don't you think the setup is odd? It just occurred to me that the man was up to no good and he was using his family as a cover.Good parents don't keep little kids up that late. Your teenagers are supposed to be home in bed by 10pm.
From the reaction to my post, there are a bunch of bad parents on this thread and no one would make a good detective.
I had no idea you let children stay up too late so how could I be insulting you? This isn't personal, you understand?
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