Posted on 03/06/2018 4:44:12 AM PST by simpson96
A woman was arrested Monday after a stabbing on a Greyhound bus in California left five injured, police said.
Teresa Ann Andrade Madrigal, 48, was arrested and charged with five counts of assault with a deadly weapon, one count of false imprisonment and another count of child endangerment, the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
Officials said Madrigal was aboard the bus heading from Las Vegas to Oakland when she began to act erratically. The sheriff’s office said the bus driver stopped the bus and asked the woman to get off so he could talk to her. After speaking with Madrigal, the bus driver determined she was calm enough to drive, according to Fox 26 Fresno.
Police said as the bus was driving through Tulare, Madrigal walked toward the back of the bus, grabbed a 3-year-old girl and held her at knifepoint. The girl’s mother immediately began fighting with Madrigal and was stabbed in the abdomen, police said.
"I woke up to screaming: 'I’m gonna kill this baby!' She had the baby in her hand and was hitting the baby, hitting the baby. Mother started screaming, pulled baby away from her, then screams, 'She’s got a knife! She’s got a knife!'" Tanya Wright, a bus passenger, told Fox 26 Fresno.
Spencer Williams, another passenger, told the station that he thought it was a joke at first until he saw the suspect holding the knife to the baby’s throat.
Two other men and the bus driver fought with Madrigal until they were able to wrestle the child away from her, police said.
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It is time to ban the knife.
/Sarc
Gray hound has a no weapons policy another weapons free zone that works so well.
Ban buses.
If it was made harder to own knives, this wouldn’t have happened.
God bless those other passengers who sprung into action to save that baby.
I want to know more about this woman ....
I’d have curb stomped her unconscious.
Ban all knives, that will end such attacks.
I guess the solution is to now have metal detectors at bus stops. Yep, that will work.
When the Left pushes rocket trains to get from city to city in 30 minutes, they never address a 45 minute TSA screening waiting line.
/Sarc
What's with the /sarc tag?
That is exactly what needs to happen. There needs to be an intense campaign to ban knives, actually to regulate them.
For starters, no sharp points, must be rounded. No sharp edges. Can't be over a certain length. And not so dang readily accessible.
Seriously.
Was she another “poor immigrant” just looking for a better life?
Yes...it’s time to bring back the village knife!
mentally ill! What else is there to know?
Her ancestors used obsidian knives to cut out the hearts of their enemies while still beating...................
We already have that law in Florida...................
So is she just another illegal stabbing people and endangering babies. Another job that Americans will not do?
Guilty
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