{"id":852883,"date":"2026-09-19T04:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T04:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/852883\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T04:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T04:50:13","slug":"sikh-truck-driver-survives-harrowing-stabbing-attack-at-wyoming-rest-stop-wyoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/852883\/","title":{"rendered":"Sikh truck driver survives harrowing stabbing attack at Wyoming rest stop | Wyoming"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Sikh truck driver survived a harrowing attack in which he was beaten then stabbed 17 times in a rest stop off a Wyoming<\/a> highway on Sunday, according to news reports.<\/p>\n

The suspected assailant, Andrew Kris Bzdak, reportedly fled the scene, before Wyoming highway patrol troopers arrested him, the Sacramento Bee reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bzdak has been charged with attempted first-degree murder. As of Friday, he was being held at the Sweetwater county detention center on a $1m bail, according to an inmate roster.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know why this happened,\u201d the truck driver, who was identified only by his last name Singh for security reasons, told NPR<\/a>. His lawyer could not be immediately reached for comment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought that now my final time had come,\u201d the driver told the Bee.<\/p>\n

The driver praised a Good Samaritan family, who tried to pursue the attacker and also brought Singh towels as blood seeped from his wounds, the Bee reported.<\/p>\n

The motive for the attack remains unknown, said Jeff Sheaman, a public information officer for the Sweetwater county sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

Several prominent south Asian civic and political figures have drawn a link between Sunday\u2019s events and a recent controversial Department of Homeland Security post depicting a Sikh driver.<\/p>\n

In a since deleted post<\/a> to X, DHS officials shared a movie poster-style image of a man with a bandana facing off a Transformer from the popular toy and movie franchise, with the words: \u201cSelf deport or Find Out.\u201d At the bottom of the image, it also read; \u201cGet off our roads, you don\u2019t know how to drive Mr Singh.\u201d<\/p>\n

DHS officials responded to criticism that the post was xenophobic, saying it was a pointed reference to an Indian-descent truck driver who was accused of making an illegal turn before crashing an 18-wheeler into a minivan, killing its occupants.<\/p>\n

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Illinois congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi said in a Thursday post<\/a> on social media he was praying for the recovery of the truck driver .<\/p>\n

\u201cThis comes amid rising hatred targeting Sikh and South Asian Americans, with even the Trump Department of Homeland Security recently posting a racist caricature of a Sikh truck driver,\u201d Krishnamoorthi wrote. \u201cThose spreading this hate, including officials in our own federal government, need to stop. Those who turn it into violence must be held accountable. And all of us need to stand together against both.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response to a request for comment about the Wyoming attack, DHS told<\/a> NPR: \u201cAny attempt to blame DHS for an unrelated attack is RECKLESS and FALSE.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Sikh truck driver survived a harrowing attack in which he was beaten then stabbed 17 times in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-852883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}