A woman in downtown Los Angeles was hospitalized in critical condition on Tuesday after police say she was stabbed in the neck in a random attack. <\/p>\n
At approximately 10:15 a.m. on Tuesday, Los Angeles Police Department officers responded to reports of a stabbing near the intersection of Hope Street and Olympic Boulevard, LAPD Officer Jeff Lee said. The crime took place a few blocks from Crypto.com Arena and LA Live. <\/p>\n
Police said the woman was between 60 and 70 years old. Emergency responders took her to a local hospital, where she remained in critical but stable condition, according to Lee.<\/p>\n
Police quickly identified a suspect in the attack as Kenneth Gibson, 39. Police did not disclosed whether Gibson had a criminal record.<\/p>\n
Following a brief foot pursuit, officers apprehended him in the vicinity of the stabbing, authorities said. He has since been taken into custody and is facing attempted murder charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman in downtown Los Angeles was hospitalized in critical condition on Tuesday after police say she was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[14925,358,28684,5788,89697,110502,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,24575,1410,236,72213,1878,2131,68,1557],"class_list":["post-247448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-com-arena","tag-critical-condition","tag-crypto","tag-downtown-l-a","tag-few-block","tag-kenneth-gibson","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-olympic-boulevard","tag-place","tag-police","tag-random-attack","tag-stabbing","tag-suspect","tag-tuesday","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}