SAN DIEGO
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A woman's screams woke up neighbors, who called 911.
“Help! I've been stabbed,” the woman pleaded from a bus stop in the southeastern San Diego neighborhood of Mountain View.
A man ran out of his home and urged the wounded woman to be calm and wait for paramedics. Emergency crews took her to a hospital, where she was treated for chest and arm wounds and is expected to survive, police said.
The 12:30 a.m. robbery and stabbing yesterday was the second violent assault in two days at San Diego transit stops.
Police arrested a 39-year-old man an hour later on suspicion of stabbing the 47-year-old woman and stealing her cell phone.
Thursday night, homicide detectives were investigating the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old San Diego man at a bus stop in City Heights.
A stare down appeared to have triggered the 8:30 p.m. shooting, police said. The gunman remained at large.
The victim, Jamal Gordon-Hill, and a female friend had been standing on a sidewalk on the north side of El Cajon Boulevard, when a black Dodge Charger or Magnum drove by slowly.
The driver stared at the couple, then drove off. A few minutes later, the same motorist walked up to the couple and spoke to the victim. Then, he pulled out a gun and shot him, said San Diego police Lt. Kevin Rooney.
The gunman then ran to his black vehicle, which was parked on Central Avenue, north of El Cajon Boulevard. Witnesses last spotted him driving east on Meade Avenue.
He was described as black, about 21 years old and 5 feet 8 inches tall. He wore a black sweat shirt, blue shorts and a short Afro haircut.
Anyone with information was asked to call the homicide unit at (619) 531-2293 or Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-TIPS.
It was not clear yesterday whether the victims or assailants in either case were transit riders. Bus service on Route 3 had ended an hour before the stabbing on Ocean View Boulevard, just east of 37th Street.
The shooting delayed bus passengers on Route 15, who were interviewed by police on what they witnessed. Motorists were also delayed because police closed the westbound lanes of El Cajon Boulevard over Interstate 15 for several hours.
Mark Arner: (619) 542-4556; mark.arner@uniontrib.com
