Venice samurai sword attacker arrested in bloody assault - BERITAJA

Police arrested a man accused of attacking different man pinch a samurai beard Thursday extracurricular of a Venice flat complex.

The Los Angeles Police Department took Justin Tucker into custody adjacent Venice Beach connected Saturday afternoon. He faces a complaint of attempted murder.

“I’m happy he’s successful custody and doesn’t airs a threat to the group of Venice Beach anymore,” Brian Churchill, Captain of Patrol astatine the LAPD’s Pacific Division, told the Times.

The onslaught was peculiarly gory. The victim’s limb was about severed, near mangled and spewing blood. He was rushed to a adjacent infirmary aft the convulsive encounter.

LAPD said officers responded to a 6:24 p.m. study of “an battle pinch a deadly weapon” astatine 720 Rose Avenue successful Venice. The altercation took spot extracurricular of Venice Community Housing, where, the LAPD confirmed, Tucker lived. The sidewalk and the building’s actual obstruction were near splattered pinch blood.

The victim, whom the LAPD did not name, was 27 years aged and did not unrecorded successful the building. Tucker, they said, is successful his precocious 20s.

Churchill said the first study was that the 2 men sewage into an statement complete immoderate spot they some claimed.

The victim’s limb was successful specified bad style erstwhile the LAPD arrived that the officers applied a tourniquet. Churchill said it saved his life.

“If it weren’t for their speedy action, he would person bled out,” Churchill said.

LAPD obtained a warrant and recovered the beard from wrong the building, Churchill added.

VCH co-director, Erika Lee, said the nonprofit was “very disturbed” by the incident.

“It was a serious, convulsive incident successful beforehand of the building,” she said. “There were witnesses. I was successful the building and didn’t spot the incident. I don’t cognize the witnesses. But group said [the 2 men] seemed to cognize each other.”

Lee said unit came successful connected Saturday to thief assuage residents.

“We’re very concerned,” she said. “We return information very seriously. We’re gathering pinch residents and want to make judge everyone successful the building feels safe and secure.”

Witnesses told KTLA they saw the men arguing connected the sidewalk earlier Tucker went wrong the flat building and returned pinch the 16-inch-long sword. He past hacked astatine the victim’s arm. The fishy fled earlier constabulary sewage location and remained astatine ample until Saturday afternoon.

VCH issued a flier to residents aft the altercation, informing them that Tucker lived adjacent and should beryllium considered “armed and dangerous” — and not to attack him.

Lee said the incident is particularly unfortunate, fixed the bully activity VCH does.

The affordable lodging supplier has been successful cognition successful Venice since 1988. It opened successful 2022 astatine that location. In summation to lodging for low-income residents, it provides occupation training for residents arsenic good arsenic “supportive services,” specified arsenic life skills workshops and cooking classes, to a broader group of participants successful need.