A man with a knife fatally stabbed a woman and wounded another Thursday in an apparently random attack in downtown Pittsburgh, police say.
A man with a knife fatally stabbed one woman and wounded another in an apparently random attack in downtown Pittsburgh on Thursday, police said.
The woman who was killed died from a stab wound to the neck, said Victor Joseph, who heads the Pittsburgh Police Department's violent crimes unit. The other woman was in stable condition, he said. Moments before the attack, a police officer was checking on a woman at a bus stop who he feared might be in medical distress, Joseph said. As he was checking on her, the assailant stabbed the woman, who later died.The officer was eventually able to get the attacker to drop his weapon, and he was taken into custody. The officer then shifted his attention to aiding the women, including putting his finger on the neck of the first woman to stop the bleeding.
Joseph said investigators believe the incident was"a random act of violence." Police do not believe the victims knew one another.stabbing spree Wednesday in Southern California that left four people dead and two injured, and which police there also said was random. The suspect robbed and attacked people at multiple sites in Garden Grove and Santa Ana, California, over the course of two hours, police said.
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