He was taken to UC Davis Medical Center with significant, but apparently non-life-theatening, stab wounds, Bernard said.
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“At this point we have no reason to believe Mr. Stone is in any kind of (legal) trouble”, Bernard said.
Over the summer, Stone and his friends were vacationing in Europe when they sprang into action aboard a Paris-board train and brought down Ayoub El-Khazzani, a man with ties to radical Islam.
“It is believed that the victim was out with a group of friends when a physical altercation led to the victim being stabbed multiple times in his upper body”, a news release from the Sacramento police says, as reported by Air Force Times.
Police are looking for two males in connection with the stabbing.
Spencer Stone, 25, was undergoing emergency surgery at a hospital in Sacramento, California, after he was knifed four times. “He seemed like he was ready to fight to the end”, Stone said.
23-year-old Spencer Stone, one of three Americans who gained worldwide attention in August after dismantling a terrorist attack on a French train, was stabbed in a fight on Wednesday evening-outside a gay bar in Sacramento, CA, where he resides. They said he was expected to pull through.
Stone was repeatedly stabbed to the torso, according to local media reports. The latter was shot while confronting the gunman, and Stone, after the gunman was subdued, was credited with helping stop Moogalian’s bleeding. Police say they don’t know if Stone was drinking alcohol, but others in his group were.
The spokesman, Lt. Col. Christopher Karns, said details are sketchy but that Stone is being treated in a hospital in the Sacramento area.
“This incident is a very unfortunate altercation between two groups of folks who were enjoying the nightlife in midtown Sacramento”, Bernard said.
He also tended to one of his fellow heroes, French-American Mark Moogalian.
They were also awarded France’s highest honour by President Francois Hollande.
Mr Skarlatos is scheduled to appear on ABC television’s Dancing With The Stars, which he was rehearsing for when a gunman killed nine people at the Oregon community college he attends last week.
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“Everybody send prayers out to the Stone family today”, Skarlatos said on Twitter.
