A man was stabbed to death Saturday in front of the Downey Library and the ambulance of responding paramedics was stolen during the call.<\/p>\n
The stabbing occurred about 9:35 a.m. Saturday in front of the library at 11121 Brookshire Ave., according to Downey Police Department Lt. Dustin Doyle.<\/p>\n
Downey Fire Department paramedics tried to save the victim but he was pronounced dead at the scene, Doyle said. There was no information immediately available about the man.<\/p>\n
Witnesses told police the suspect fled toward Downey High School, and the school and library were placed on lockdown while officers searched for the suspect, he said.<\/p>\n
The suspect, a 23-year-old man believed to be a transient, was taken into custody at Downey High School, Doyle said.<\/p>\n
“While emergency personnel were tending to the victim at the library, a male suspect, unrelated to the homicide investigation, stole a Downey Fire Department ambulance that was parked at the homicide scene,” he said.<\/p>\n
Downey officers chased the ambulance to the city of Alhambra, where the suspect crashed the ambulance into a parked vehicle, Doyle said. That suspect was a 52-year-old man who lives in Los Angeles, he said.<\/p>\n
Both cases were under investigation, Doyle said. Anyone with information about the stabbing is asked to contact Det. J. Estrada at 562-904-2332 or jestrada@downeyca.org or Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was stabbed to death Saturday in front of the Downey Library and the ambulance of responding…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":225041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,28279,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-225040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-downey","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115200209071879540","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}