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<\/p>\nA woman was rushed to the hospital after she was stabbed in the face with a pen during an apparent random attack in downtown Miami on Tuesday, officials said.<\/p>\n
The incident happened in the area of Biscayne Boulevard and Northeast 8th Street, not far from Kaseya Center.<\/p>\n
Miami Fire Rescue officials said a woman was transported to a local hospital from the scene with a stab wound to her face.<\/p>\n
“Her face is just coated with blood, it looked like studio makeup,” witness Asher Shafer said. “It was terrifying, at first I though it was a dog attack, and I was wondering if there was a loose dog wandering around.”<\/p>\n
Aerial footage from Chopper 6 showed multiple officers surrounding and speaking with a man outside a nearby CVS.<\/p>\n
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Police respond to a stabbing in downtown Miami on May 19, 2026.<\/p>\n
Miami Police officials said they believe the man is the stabbing suspect and that it appears to be a random attack, adding that the victim was stabbed with a pen.<\/p>\n
“It does appear to have been a random incident at this time,” Miami Police spokeswoman Kiara Delva said. “That woman suffered serious lacerations, she was transported to the hospital.”<\/p>\n
Shafer said it appeared the woman was walking her dog when she was attacked in broad daylight.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom the looks of it, yeah, she had her dog with her while she was getting taken care of, getting the blood taken off her face,” Shafer said.<\/p>\n
The suspect was ranting and in distress so officers worked to de-escalate the situation so he wouldn’t harm himself of anyone else, officials said.<\/p>\n
Police said after three hours of negotiations, the man was taken into custody. Cell phone video showed a Taser being deployed to knock him to the ground.<\/p>\n
The man, identified as 49-year-old Raydean Johnson, has a long criminal history including a record of being combative with officers, officials added.<\/p>\n
It’s unknown what charges Johnson may face.<\/p>\n
Check back with NBC6 for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman was rushed to the hospital after she was stabbed in the face with a pen during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226,123],"class_list":["post-277359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-miami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}