UPDATE, 10:36 a.m.: Eureka Police Department press release:
On 02/23/15 at about 7:15 p.m., Officers with the Eureka Police Department were dispatched to the Bayshore Mall after a woman called 911 reporting that someone was attempting to stab her. Upon arrival, officers located a mall employee that had been stabbed in the arm.
The suspect, Cayla Tatum (26) of Eureka, had been pepper sprayed and detained by mall security and an off-duty police officer prior to officer’s arrival. Tatum admitted to stabbing the victim. Based on witness statements, Tatum attacked the victim without any provocation and chased her from one store to another where she cornered and stabbed her.
The victim was transported by ambulance to the hospital for treatment for non-life threatening injuries. Tatum was transported to the hospital for medical clearance prior to being booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility for assault with a deadly weapon.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the Eureka Police Department at (707) 441-4060.
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Original Post: We probably won’t know much more about this until tomorrow, but a person was stabbed in the arm at the Bayshore Mall tonight at a little after 7:15 p.m. We’ve seen scattered Facebook posts about the incident, and we’ve gone back and checked the scanner tape.
At around 7:17 p.m., Eureka Police Department dispatchers relayed a 911 call in which an employee at the mall was screaming “hysterically,” saying that someone was attempting to stab her.
A minute and a half later, medical aid is dispatched to the mall to treat a woman who had been stabbed in the arm.
At around 7:24 p.m., police on the scene report that one person has been detained.
As I said above: We likely won’t know until tomorrow whether the person detained is a suspect in the stabbing, or what led up to it. More then.
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