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Man Arrested in Stabbing of Hero Serviceman Spencer Stone

U.S. National Guardsman from Roseburg, Oregon, Alek Skarlatos, left, U.S. Airman Spencer Stone, 2nd left, and Anthony Sadler, right, a senior at Sacramento University in California, leave the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, with U.S. Ambassador to France Jane D. Hartley after being awarded with the French Legion of Honor by French President, Francois Hollande, Monday, Aug. 24, 2015. French President Francois Hollande and a bevy of officials are presenting the Americans with the prestigious Legion of Honor on Monday. The three American travelers say they relied on gut instinct and a close bond forged over years of friendship as they took down a heavily armed man on a passenger train speeding through Belgium. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)
AP
November 4, 2015

Sacramento police said Wednesday that a man has been arrested in the stabbing of Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone, one of the heroes who helped foil a terrorist plot on a French train this summer.

The Associated Press reported that 28-year-old James Tran has been arrested on suspicion of attempted homicide, according to police Chief Sam Somers Jr.

Stone was stabbed repeatedly in the chest in the early morning of Oct. 8 on a street corner in Sacramento. He was sent to the hospital for treatment of his potentially life-threatening injuries.

According to authorities, multiple individuals were questioned in the attack but none were arrested but Tran. Police said the attack had nothing to do with Stone’s heroic actions on the French train but instead involved a fight between two groups of people.

The assault occurred shortly after Stone was commended for foiling the terror plot at a Sacramento nightclub called the Badlands.

In August, Stone and two other Americans, one a National Guardsman, subdued an armed terrorist aboard a train taking passengers from Amsterdam to Paris. The three men were given France’s Legion of Honour award for their actions.