The incident happened around 6:20 pm Tuesday afternoon at a Target near Figueroa and 7th Street in Los Angeles, California, when police said the man entered the store and grabbed a butcher knife with a 9-inch blade from a shelf before Confronting the 7-year-old boy, Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore told the media after the incident. “He confronted him and told the young boy that he was going to stab him and kill him,” Moore said. “He repeated this more than once. The toddler tried to run away and run away, ignore him, walk away. The suspect without further provocation suddenly attacked and stabbed that child in the back.” After the initial stabbing, the suspect then met a group of women and stabbed a 25-year-old woman “brutally” in the chest, according to Moore. The boy suffered a deep cut to his back and shoulders and fell to the floor after being stabbed, officials said. The 25-year-old woman was attended to by good Samaritans who reportedly rescued her by pulling her into the pharmacy area of the store and closing the gate behind them, according to ABC station KABC in Los Angeles. The suspect then moved to the front of the store but was confronted by an armed Target security guard, who allegedly tried to defuse the situation with his bat before switching to his gun when the suspect allegedly continued to shoot him. comes close with the 9-inch blade. on KABC. A homeless man was shot and killed by a security guard after he allegedly walked into a Target store and stabbed two people, including a 7-year-old boy, with a large butcher knife he grabbed from a shelf in Los Angeles, California. , on Tuesday, November 15, 2022. ABC News/ KABC The security guard shot the man at least once in the torso before Los Angeles police officers who happened to be at the nearby shopping complex next to Target responded to the scene and arrested the stabbing suspect, according to KABC. The incident reportedly caused mass panic at the store as customers fled the scene and a woman was trampled in the commotion and bruised on the face, authorities said. “Out of nowhere, we heard people screaming,” Kevin Zaragoza, who was shopping at Target with his brother at the time of the stabbings, told KABC after the incident. “We rush forward. Right from the exit we see a girl on the floor, blood all over her. After that, we see all of Los Angeles pouring in there with shotguns, all kinds of things. It was crazy.” The 7-year-old boy who was stabbed underwent surgery after the attack and is currently in stable condition, although he may have suffered possible neurological damage from the stabbing, officials said. The 25-year-old was also taken to hospital and underwent surgery for a deep stab wound to her chest. Authorities have not yet released an update on her condition, but confirmed that the suspect was not related to any of the victims involved in the stabbing. The suspect who was shot by the security guard during the fight was also taken to the hospital, but died from a gunshot wound after the stabbings, police said. The investigation into the incident is ongoing.
