Perris Restaurant Stabbing Leads To Bus Arrest

PERRIS, CA — An investigation into a stabbing Sunday evening at a Perris restaurant led to the arrest of a man found on a Hemet-bound Riverside Transit Authority bus.

Lonnie Hinton, 25, of Perris was arrested at Highway 74 and Cortrite Avenue in Homeland at 7:11 p.m. Sunday, jail records show.

Riverside County sheriff's deputies tracked him after responding to a 5:25 p.m. call about a stabbing in the 400 block of 4th Street.

"Deputies arrived within minutes and found an adult male restaurant employee who suffered multiple stab wounds," the sheriff's department reported.

Witnesses told deputies that the suspect had boarded an RTA bus traveling toward Hemet.

Deputies located the bus and the suspect, identified by the sheriff's department as Hinton, and made the arrest.

The stabbing victim was hospitalized and is expected to survive his injuries, according to the sheriff's department.

Hinton was booked into Cois Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. He was being held in lieu of $25,000 bail and was due in court Thursday.

No motive for the alleged attack was publicly disclosed by the sheriff's department.