FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A Fresno County Senior Deputy District Attorney was stabbed in Courthouse Park outside of the Fresno County Courthouse in downtown Fresno on Thursday. <\/p>\n
It happened just after 1 p.m. near the Law Enforcement Memorial.<\/p>\n
The suspect, identified as 42-year-old Dustin Crawford of Fresno, ran from the scene but was captured a couple of blocks away at the intersection of Fresno Street and Van Ness Blvd. by Fresno County sheriff’s deputies.<\/p>\n
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The male suspect ran from the scene but was captured a couple of blocks away by Fresno County sheriff’s deputies. (Photo: FOX26 Photojournalist Bert Montelongo)<\/p>\n
Deputies say they had to use a Taser to take him into custody. A weapon was also taken from him.<\/p>\n
Crawford was taken to the hospital to be checked out.<\/p>\n
He faces charges of attempted murder and attempted murder of a public official.<\/p>\n
He is in the Fresno County Jail with a bail set at $1 million. The sheriff’s office says he has a criminal history, including serving time in a state prison.<\/p>\n
In a statement Fresno County District Attorney Lisa Smittcamp says:<\/p>\n
“We are outraged and deeply saddened by the brazen stabbing of one of our Senior Deputy District Attorneys this afternoon in Courthouse Park.”<\/p>\n
She went on to say:<\/p>\n
There is no place in our community for violence against those who serve it.<\/p>\n
The Sheriff\u2019s Office and MAGEC are actively investigating this incident and working to determine the motive.<\/p>\n
The victim was treated and released from the hospital.<\/p>\n
Out of respect for the man and his family, his identity will not be released. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A Fresno County Senior Deputy District Attorney was stabbed in Courthouse Park outside of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-439559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439559","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=439559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}