Cleaver attack kills 6-year-old
Rick's on his way to the scene of this horrible homicide, so we'll get you the details as they materialize. In the meantime, here's the early version:
NEWBURY PARK — A Sunday night attack with a meat cleaver left a little boy dead, his mother severely wounded and Calvin Sharp under arrest, sheriff’s deputies reported today.
Neighbors said in news reports that Sharp screamed “Die! Die!” as he chopped the 6-year-old in the head with the blade, then attacked 33-year-old Sandra Ruiz when she tried to stop him.
Neighbors pounced on the 28-year-old man, knocking the butcher’s tool away and restraining him until the arrival of the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department.
Deputies shot Sharp with a stun gun several times and arrested him.
Ruiz is in critical condition at Los Robles Medical Center. A neighbor who helped in the struggle for the cleaver was treated for a cut to the face and released.
Elsewhere:
Ventura County Star
LA Times