BREAKING! Two women stabbed while talking with a police officer!
#BREAKING: @PghPolice confirm an officer was speaking to a woman at the bus stop on Sixth Street when someone behind the officer attacked the woman and another woman nearby with a knife. The officer tackled the suspect and then provided aid to the victims pic.twitter.com/6dl9J2VGXp
— Aaron Martin (@WPXIAaronMartin) August 8, 2019
Action News 4 reports that A woman was fatally stabbed in the neck Thursday morning at a downtown bus stop, right in front of a Pittsburgh police officer who had been checking on the woman’s well-being at the time, police said.
The unidentified attacker also stabbed a bystander walking near the bus stop before he was subdued and taken into custody at the scene on Sixth Street near Smithfield Street, police said.
“We don’t know the motivation at this time. We just don’t know,” said Cmdr. Vic Joseph, of the city’s Major Crimes unit. He said the attack currently appears “by all accounts” to be a random act.
Pittsburgh police later said in a press release that “there is no evidence to suggest that this attack was racially or religiously motivated.”
Joseph said an officer on patrol was talking to the woman, who appeared to be sleeping or possibly in medical distress at the bus stop, when a man came up and stabbed that woman and then assaulted a second woman who was walking down the street.
The officer drew his gun, ordered the man to get on the ground and drop the weapon…
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