Crime & Safety
Restaurant Stabbing Suspect Arrested in Manassas: Police
He had been identified a day earlier in the incident late last month at La Isla that left victim with non-life-threatening injuries.
MANASSAS, VA — A Manassas man identified a day earlier as the suspect in a restaurant stabbing late last month turned himself in Wednesday, according to Prince William County Police.
Edwin Alexander Cuellar-Perez, 29, of the 9700 block of Damascus Drive, was charged with aggravated malicious wounding.
Shortly after 10 p.m. on Sept. 25, police responded to a stabbing report at the La Isla restaurant at 8699 Parkland Street. The victim, a 29-year-old Centreville man, told police he had been stabbed in the lower body by an unknown person, who then fled the restaurant on foot.
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The victim tried to chase him but had to stop because of his wound. He wound up being flown to an area hospital with injuries not life-threatening.
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