Machete Attack In Chula Vista 8/17/2018

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Channel: SoCal Code 3 · 2018 · People & Blogs

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Date/Time: 8/17/2018 - 8:16pm
City: Chula Vista
Location: Sipes Circle & Whitaker Ave.
Incident Details:

A man armed with a machete threatened a Chula Vista family after he crashed into a car and then went on a violent rampage. Police got a report just after 8 p.m. of a man swinging around a machete and jumping up and down on a car along Sipes Circle near Palomar Street. Officers say the suspect crashed into his ex-wife's boyfriend’s car and tried to stab the boyfriend through the window several times.
The boyfriend eventually ran away but the suspect’s ex-wife came out of the house. That’s when the suspect started chasing her, police said. An off-duty Border Patrol officer in the area and drew his weapon on the suspect and he stopped chasing her, but when Chula Vista Police Department officers arrived he ran.
Officers eventually caught up to the suspect a couple blocks away and arrested him. He was taken away in an ambulance with unknown injuries.

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