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.
“Byproduct of de-institutionalizing the mentally ill for the cheaper program of medicating them.”
+1
That’s half of it. The other is saving money by relabeling violent criminals as non-violent and letting them out on the street with zero incarceration.
>>Byproduct of de-institutionalizing the mentally ill for the cheaper program of medicating them.
The radical Left itself was/is certifiably crazy and they WANT chaos in the streets.
I don’t say that lightly, it is FACT.
“How awful! Anyone figure out why this happened? My daughter lives there.”
The answer is real simple. California gov’t officials have a policy of letting violent, crazy “homeless” people live freely on the streets of California.
Dreadful. RIP.
“a stabbing at the Aloha Steakhouse
Pshaw, the KKKalifornians won’t be coming after the knives, they will ban steakhouses. That meat pollutes the air and cattle ranching kills the planet.
I feel your pain. We have the same in the cities of north Orange, aided and abetted by the city officials here and one idiot judge named David Carter.
Jamal.
My experienced based gues is that the stabbed man was guilty of dining while white.
“How do you know when a vagrant is local? Local relative to what?”
Because the Ventura cops immediately knew who the stabber would be when they got the call.
Thank Jerry Brown, and the Democrats for all the woes of our once beautiful, congenial State.
I feel like I’m back in Long Beach or Compton.....it’s sad.
Because 9:20 was when her parents were having dinner and she went with them.
I’ve got no argument there.
We exited CA towards the end of President Reagan’s last term as president and were there for his two terms as Guv. Also there during both of Moonbeams first two terms and his dads before that.
CA was once a great state and even though we left I still wish it would become one again but it’s probably wishful thinking on my part.
Yep, that’d work for me.
In my purse I still have a gift certificate for the Aloha Steakhouse in Ventura. It used to be such a nice city.
I grew up in Lakewood....next door to Long Beach. Lets just say...if you’re white in Long Beach, you’re a minority & you best not walk around by yourself there!
“Are you saying Long Beach has changed? (typing from South East Missouri).”
About like this:
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jan/27/local/me-lbhate27
Jamal definitely not a dreamer. It didn't turn out to well for the last one that had a dream.
“I have lived in Ventura County for 21 years...”
You’re a braver man than I am.
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