Crime & Safety

Healdsburg Police Call Stabbing Apparent Gang Attack

The victim was walking down the street in Healdsburg when several people jumped out of a car and stabbed him.

Healdsburg police are investigating the stabbing of a man late Monday night as a possible gang crime, a police sergeant said.

The 20-year-old victim was taken by a friend to Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Santa Rosa and hospital staff notified police, Sgt. Luis Rodriguez said.

The victim told police he was walking on Parkland Farms Boulevard in north Healdsburg around 11 p.m. when four or five people in a vehicle approached him, got out of the vehicle and assaulted him, Rodriguez said. The victim was stabbed multiple times in the torso with an unknown object and the suspects then fled, according to Rodriguez.

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Police believe the stabbing may be gang-related. Anyone with information about the case is asked to call Healdsburg police at (707) 431-3377.

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