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Police search for sword-wielding assailant Homeless man OK after
Oakland Tribune, Mar 6, 2007
OAKLAND -- A 43-year-old homeless man was stabbed with a sword early Saturday in downtown Oakland by another man he got into an argument with for waking him, police said.
The suspect wielded an 11-inch samurai sword, police said.
The victim, stabbed once in the lower stomach, is expected to recover. His name was not released.
The stabbing happened about 2 a.m. Saturday in the 300 block of 17th Street.
The victim told officers he was sleeping in the doorway of a building when he was awakened by the loud voices of two men talking just a few feet away.
He got up and told the men to leave, pushing one. The man who was pushed hit the homeless man over the head with a scabbard that contained the sword.
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The two then started fighting and the homeless man was stabbed in the stomach. The man with the sword ran off.
The injured man was taken to a local hospital for treatment of the stab wound and a bump on the head caused by being hit with the scabbard.
Officers found the empty scabbard in the street nearby.
The suspect was described as a white man in his 20s, about 5 feet 10 and 170 to 180 pounds with short brown hair. He was wearing dark glasses, a brown denim jacket, multicolored striped shirt and brown pants.
Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland offer up to $5,000 in reward money for information leading to the arrest of the suspect. Anyone with information can call police at 238-3426 or Crime Stoppers at 238-6946.
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