A man who struck a San Diego police officer with his vehicle after police responded to his Point Loma home pleaded guilty this week to attempted murder and domestic violence charges.<\/p>\n
William Stephens, 66, is expected to be sentenced to 12 years in state prison next month for driving his Jeep toward Officer Matthew Salisbury, one of several officers who responded to Stephens’ home on Jan. 23, 2025, for a domestic violence report.<\/p>\n
Shortly after 10 a.m., officers were sent to a residence in the 3500 block of Inez Street in response to a domestic violence call involving a married couple, SDPD said. “According to the initial radio call, the suspect had hit, threatened and cut the victim on the hand with a knife,” SDPD said.\u00a0\u00a0Police said Stephens also broke the woman’s phone while she was calling 911.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said that as Salisbury approached the driveway of the home in the Wooded Area neighborhood, Stephens sped toward the officer, who attempted to evade the vehicle by moving behind a bush located near the driveway’s entrance. Stephens then turned his Jeep toward the bush, striking Salisbury, then crashed into a mailbox and another vehicle parked on the street.<\/p>\n
Stephens then exited the Jeep and was taken to the ground by multiple officers and handcuffed.<\/p>\n
Salisbury sustained fractures to one of his legs and a dislocated knee, according to evidence presented at a preliminary hearing last year.<\/p>\n
Officers were called out after Stephens’ wife called 911 and stated her husband had threatened her and cut her hand with a knife. Stephens’ wife testified that she and her sister went to the home and encountered Stephens, who appeared extremely angry and demanded they leave.<\/p>\n
She said that after he grabbed a knife from a knife block in the kitchen, she approached Stephens, put her hand up in a defensive gesture when he held the knife too close to her, and attempted to grab the blade, cutting her hand in the process.<\/p>\n
The women then exited the house and called 911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who struck a San Diego police officer with his vehicle after police responded to his Point…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":117432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,87847,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-792499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-point-loma","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-sandiego","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116565069500864952","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792499","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=792499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}