Los Angeles (KNX) - Another metro bus driver has been stabbed, this time in Venice.
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At approximately 1:45 PM on Thursday, on Main Street near Windward Circle, the bus pulled over, and that's when things got violent.
George Gill, a security guard in a nearby business, told KNX's Pete Demetriou, the bus driver was working on the hydraulics for the handicap ramp when a homeless man and the driver got into an argument.
Gill said, the suspect appeared to be homeless and, "I guess they didn't want to pay." The two had an altercation right by the doors of the bus, and the suspect punched the driver.
According to Gill, once the bus driver turned around from the punch, "the homeless guy got a knife, a big dagger probably like 12 inches and just stabbed him right in the middle of the back out of nowhere."
The knife could be seen sticking out the driver's back.
"They got lost behind the bus, and then the bus driver came from behind the tail lights, and I waved him down," Gill said.
Gill lifted the driver's shirt and saw he was severely wound. Luckily for the driver, a bystander compressed the wound to avoid excessive bleeding.
Meanwhile, Gill went across the street and confronted the suspect who waved the knife at him. Gil pepper sprayed the suspect not once but several times until his pepper spray completely ran out.
The man then dropped the knife and sat down on the sidewalk until police arrived a few minutes later.
The suspect, described as a man in his late fifties, is now in custody and could face attempted murder charges.
The MTA says they are saddened and shocked by this kind of attack.
This is the second stabbing of a Metro bus driver in less than a month.
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