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.
“So you’re saying these are bad parents”
Hardly. I don’t say crazy things like it’s somehow wrong for a 5 yr old to go to dinner with her parents.
A man is murdered with his daughter in his lap and your takeaway is that they are bad parents because it was 9:20 pm. You just can’t make this stuff up.
A bum. AA few decades ago he would have been in a shelter or an institution learning how to solder wires to circuit boards. Now with the guaranteed freedom to be batshit crazy he is sleeping on the beach and when he hears his “voice” he does what that other guy in his head tells him to do.
Used to call them “bums.”
So sad. Prayers.
He is “local” because he wasn’t very recently placed there by LA or a Soros tour bus.
Mustn’t call them “vagrants” any more. They are Citizens and they vote, or at least someone votes them.
How dreadful. His poor family.
More details
https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/communities/ventura/2018/04/20/man-stabbed-ventura-restaurant-dies/536291002/
What’s time to a five year old?
Nope. You don’t. Savages.
This happened just up the road from me. Our boat is in the marina. There was no motive. The guy is a mentally ill homeless person. Apparently he was sitting out on the promenade harassing people before this. The police were called but ‘didn’t have an officer to dispatch because they were on other calls’. I won’t go to the promenade or pier and haven’t in years. There are homeless everywhere.
keep it up Jerrry...keep it up.....
Moonbeam should contact the Mad Mo Mayor of London and get a copy of his “cutlery ban” and issue an edict to that fact ASAP.
if you’re white in Long Beach, you’re a minority & you best not walk around by yourself there!
Watts was black, but had decent well-kept homes. Was such a contrast to what we saw on T.V. from back east. Watts wasn’t a slum.
to eat!
in my best Scrooge voice...”are there no prisons”..
That, that is your take on this?
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