Dozens of officers responded after a woman was attacked in Koreatown, and then a man stabbed a block over in East Hollywood Tuesday.
At 10 a.m., paramedics responded to a shooting near Beverly Boulevard and Vermont Avenue, not far from a Metro line.
A man had approached a woman on the platform and began to attack her, LAPD Lt. Letisia Ruiz said at a later news conference.
Another man saw and tried to intervene. The attacker pulled out a knife, but then ran away. That man was not injured.
When the attacker was up at the street level, Ruiz said he stabbed another man who confronted him.
“He looked pretty calm like he was trying to be calmed and everything and we were just waiting for the ambulance,” Itzayna Torres, a witness, said. “One of the ladies that was standing there too wrapped a shirt around his arm to kind of stop the bleeding but he was bleeding.”
The LAPD was alerted and found the attacker near Beverly Boulevard and Vermont Avenue. The attacker then pulled out the knife again, and an officer shot him.
The attacker was taken to a hospital where he was in stable condition.
The victim who was stabbed was also stable.
Police say the woman who was initially assaulted took herself to the hospital. They don’t know about her injuries and they are still trying to get in touch with her.
The LAPD said it’s not clear if the attacker and the woman knew each other.
Officers were reviewing security cameras, but encouraged anyone who may have video to reach out.
