A 42-year-old man has been identified as the suspect accused of stabbing a senior Fresno County prosecutor in downtown Fresno in a retaliatory attack during a commercial shoot for judicial candidate Ashley Paulson.<\/p>\n
Dustin Crawford was booked into the Fresno County Jail following Thursday\u2019s attack on charges of attempted murder and attempted murder of a public official.<\/p>\n
Driving the news: Fresno County sheriff\u2019s dispatchers received a report at 1:13 p.m. that a man had been stabbed in Courthouse Park.<\/p>\n
Deputies assigned to the nearby courthouse responded to help the victim and search for the suspect.<\/p>\n
Authorities said deputies used a Taser to take Crawford into custody and recovered a weapon from him.<\/p>\n
The charges: Jail records list Crawford\u2019s bail at $1 million.<\/p>\n
He was booked on suspicion of:<\/p>\n
Attempted murder<\/p>\n
Attempted murder of a public official<\/p>\n
Obstructing a public officer<\/p>\n
The victim: Fresno County District Attorney Lisa Smittcamp identified the victim as a senior deputy district attorney but declined to release his name out of respect for him and his family.<\/p>\n
The prosecutor was taken to Community Regional Medical Center. He was conscious, breathing and speaking during the trip to the hospital, authorities said.<\/p>\n
What they\u2019re saying: Smittcamp called the attack a \u201cbrazen stabbing\u201d and said prosecutors should be able to serve the public without fearing violence.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no place in our community for violence against those who serve it,\u201d Smittcamp said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am shocked and heartbroken by the violent attack on a Senior Deputy District Attorney who, while on break this afternoon, was with me and members of our campaign shooting a television commercial at Courthouse Park,\u201d Paulson, a prosecutor and candidate for Fresno County Superior Court Judge, said in a statement. \u201cThis prosecutor is more than just a servant of the court and Fresno County. He is a long-time colleague and a close friend of mine.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile the investigation continues, I will not speculate further other than to note that justice will ultimately be served,\u201d the judicial candidate added.<\/p>\n
Additional details: During a KMJ interview on Friday morning, Smittcamp said Crawford was previously sentenced in a case handled by the victim prosecutor, noting that he was singled out by the 42-year-old assailant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 42-year-old man has been identified as the suspect accused of stabbing a senior Fresno County prosecutor in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113,7999],"class_list":["post-439804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-highlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439804","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=439804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}