{"id":439580,"date":"2026-08-21T17:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/439580\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T17:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:26:16","slug":"fresno-prosecutor-was-targeted-in-retaliatory-courthouse-park-stabbing-da-smittcamp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/439580\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno prosecutor was targeted in retaliatory Courthouse Park stabbing, DA Smittcamp says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">District Attorney Lisa Smittcamp is releasing new information on what she says was an act of retaliation by the suspect in the stabbing of a deputy district attorney at Courthouse Park in Downtown Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: The video above is from a previous broadcast and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During an interview with KMJ, our news partner, Smittcamp said Dustin Crawford was sentenced in the past for a case handled by this prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Smittcamp said Crawford approached a group on Thursday afternoon that was shooting a campaign commercial for Ashley Paulson and said he knew who they were.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She added that the suspect then singled out the prosecutor and stabbed him three times in the back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RELATED: <a data-ylk=\"slk:Courthouse Park stabbing victim identified as Fresno County senior deputy district attorney;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/post\/authorities-investigating-stabbing-courthouse-park-downtown-fresno\/19709726\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Courthouse Park stabbing victim identified as Fresno County senior deputy district attorney<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The attorney was rushed to the hospital for treatment, and Smittcamp said he&#8217;s since been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Crawford has a criminal history, and Smittcamp believes this incident is a result of California&#8217;s criminal justice reform failures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She is calling for an end to the state&#8217;s &#8220;Hug a Thug&#8221; policies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Tulare County District Attorney&#8217;s Office is handling the stabbing case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Crawford is in the Fresno County Jail with a $1 million bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"District Attorney Lisa Smittcamp is releasing new information on what she says was an act of retaliation by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[141758,141258,7359,17774,174365,112,114,113,78013,174367,174366],"class_list":["post-439580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-ashley-paulson","tag-courthouse-park","tag-district-attorney","tag-downtown-fresno","tag-dustin-crawford","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-lisa-smittcamp","tag-smittcamp","tag-the-stabbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439580","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=439580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}