Another Berkeley stabbing under investigation
Police said the victim declined to provide much detail but said he had been stabbed while sitting on the steps outside a homeless shelter.
Police are investigating a stabbing this week in Berkeley that sent a man to Highland Hospital.
As of publication time, the circumstances of the incident remained hazy due to conflicting reports and the ongoing investigation.
The Berkeley Fire Department was dispatched to the Dorothy Day House shelter at 1931 Center St. at about 8:45 p.m. Tuesday for a medical emergency.
Arriving firefighters found a man who was bleeding from the face and arm, and described him over the radio as uncooperative.
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BFD asked for Berkeley police to be dispatched to the scene as they took the man to Highland Hospital for medical treatment.
When police arrived, they found a "blood trail that leads from the interior of the Dorothy Day House out to the Center Street sidewalk," one officer said over the radio.
Officers determined that the incident involved a shelter resident who showed up there already wounded.
Police said the victim declined to provide much detail but said he had been stabbed while sitting on the steps outside Dorothy Day.
He said he didn't know who had attacked him and that the assailant had come from behind, BPD said.
The victim was taken to Highland Hospital, the regional trauma center, where he was listed in stable condition, authorities said.
Aside from the preliminary BPD narrative, there were numerous community reports that the conflict actually began in the homeless encampment at Ohlone Park. Police said they had not confirmed that as of publication time.
One community member told TBS nearby neighbors heard fighting in the park around the time of the stabbing.
This year, local residents have reported increasing concerns about the growing homeless camp at Ohlone Park. A community meeting on the subject is set for May 22.
Thursday night, police responded to the park and arrested a man who was causing a disturbance after finding him with stolen property, authorities said.
Earlier in the day, a resident who lives near the park had a confrontation with a man carrying knives and a meth pipe after he tried to enter a backyard and refused to leave, a local resident told TBS.
Overall, stabbing reports seem to be ticking up in Berkeley, with a teenage boy stabbed while walking home from the gym in early April and a young man left in critical condition after a stabbing on Durant Avenue last week.
On Thursday afternoon, the Citizen app sent out a spurious alert to thousands of people about a double stabbing at Ashby BART. Authorities said that didn't happen (although there was a similar report around the same time near Fruitvale station in Oakland).
