SANTA CRUZ — A person police suspect might have been making an attempt to rob a downtown pedestrian Tuesday night time was later stabbed and suffered from a nonfatal wound.
Santa Cruz police have been initially known as at 5:50 p.m. to the 1000 block of Pacific Avenue for studies of a stabbing, doubtlessly with two victims. One sufferer was later situated.
The person, mentioned Santa Cruz Deputy Police Chief Jon Bush, suffered from a shallow knife wound and was uncooperative with police investigators. Witnesses, nevertheless, informed police that three males seen driving a automobile within the space tried to rob a pedestrian of his red-colored footwear. The stabbing sufferer — injured within the space of Pacific Avenue and Elm Avenue, Bush mentioned, might have been a type of assailants. The red-shoed theft sufferer, nevertheless, didn't stay on the scene to report the crime and couldn't be situated by police, Bush mentioned.
A path of blood by close by enterprise parking tons led away from Pacific Avenue, officers on the scene reported. Close by, a crowd had begun to type as concert-goers lined up outdoors for a weekday present on the Catalyst Membership.
As officers canvassed the neighborhood in the hunt for the assailant, officers requested that residents within the space obtain a reverse 911 lockdown notification.
With the assistance of two drones and a Ok-9 unit, officers narrowed their search to a residential block bounded by Elm, Heart, Cedar and Maple streets. Looking yard by yard, patrols first discovered a backpack they believed was related to the assailant, discarded in a garbage can. Minutes later, shortly after 7:15 p.m., officers positioned a shirtless suspected assailant on the 400 block of Cedar Avenue in cuffs. As he was being positioned inside a police automobile, he yelled to an unknown topic, asking them to “inform (unintelligible) I really like her.”
The detainee was a juvenile who investigators later decided was not the suspected assailant, Bush mentioned. He was detained on minor expenses, arrested on suspicion of fleeing police and imbibing alcohol as a minor, Bush mentioned.