On Sept. 28, a man was fatally stabbed on the intersection of Spalding Drive and Charleville Boulevard during what the Beverly Hills Police Department called a “physical altercation.” Police say the man was stabbed after attacking a father and his baby. Video and eyewitness reports state that the father stabbed his attacker in self-defense and that the attacker then attempted a dognapping.
In a press release, the BHPD said that at approximately 2:51 p.m., they received a request for police indicating “unknown trouble” on the 100 block of Spalding Drive and Wilshire Boulevard. Arriving officers found two men suffering from injuries resulting from the altercation; the attacker had been stabbed. Police told the Courier that a taser was deployed on the attacker by officers. After an investigation, BHPD determined that the man stabbed had confronted the father and his child while they were walking on the sidewalk. A man who only identified himself as “Brian” to KCAL who was driving by witnessed the scene. Brian then told NBC4 the attacker “was not present, he was having some kind of psychotic break, and so it was kind of scary.” Pulling over his vehicle to help the two being attacked, Brian said his son intervened. The attacker then focused on them. Approaching Brian’s vehicle, the attacker lunged into it and grabbed his dog in the back seat.
