Woman Seriously Injured In City Heights Attack

SAN DIEGO, CA — A person was seriously injured in the head Tuesday when attacked in a City Heights park by a man wielding a sword, police said.

Just before 2 a.m. Tuesday, the San Diego Police Department responded to a Starbucks coffee shop in the 3800 block of Fairmount Avenue where a heavily bleeding woman was banging on the door, according to SDPD Officer Sarah Foster.

The victim said they were hit on the head with a sword while at a picnic table in Kenwood Memorial Park on Wightman Street, the officer said. The suspect left the area in an unknown direction.

The injured person was rushed to Mercy Hospital. Her large head wound was being treated and was believed to be non-life-threatening.

— City News Service