Two people have been hospitalized and are in critical condition following a stabbing incident at a Target in downtown Los Angeles.
A little before 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, a man who appeared to be homeless walked into the Target store, grabbed a butcher knife from a shelf, and began stabbing people, police said.
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A 9-year-old boy and a woman in her mid-20s were injured during the attack.
Before the attack, the suspect told the young boy he was going to stab and kill him, according to Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore.
The boy tried to leave the area when the suspect, “without any further provocation,” stabbed the boy in the back left shoulder, Moore said.
After stabbing the boy, the suspect went to a different area of the store, where he “brutally” stabbed a woman in her 20s in the “front portion of her chest,” Moore said.
The woman fell to the ground after being stabbed, and several good Samaritans came to her aid, pulling her inside a nearby pharmacy and closing the gate in an effort to ensure the attack would not continue, Moore said.
A security guard shot the suspect, who was later declared dead at the hospital, Moore told the Associated Press.
The identity of the suspect has not yet been released.
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“Out of nowhere, we heard people screaming,” Kevin Zaragoza, who was shopping at the store with his brother, told KABC-TV. “We rushed to the front. Right there by the exit, we see a girl on the floor, blood all over her.”
“After that, we see the whole LAPD swarming in there with shotguns, all types of stuff. It was crazy,” he said.
