Citrus Heights police received an assist from the Placer County sheriff's "Falcon 30" helicopter to run down an assault suspect Friday night after a woman was stabbed in the neck and threatened with a gun, officials said.
The action occurred about 9 p.m. when two women tried to intervene during an argument between Adrian Lamar Bradford, 20, and another woman in the parking lot of an apartment complex at 7711 Greenback Lane. The two women were hosting the party that Bradford and the other woman were attending, officials said.
More details from David Richie:
Bradford allegedly pulled a pocket knife and stabbed one of the women, then produced a gun which he allegedly waved in the woman's face. Bradford and a companion took off on foot as police cruisers rolled into the complex and the Placer County helicopter appeared overhead. The chase covered about 300 yards with the helicopter keeping track of Bradford as he ran into the parking lot of an adjacent apartment complex on Burich Avenue.
"The helicopter talked the officers right into where he was hiding," said Sgt. Lee Herrington, Citrus Heights police spokesman.
Officers found a BB pistol in the path of the foot pursuit, but the injured woman told officers that she thinks the suspect actually threatened her with a more lethal handgun that was not found during a search of the area, Herrington said.
Paramedics treated the woman for a neck wound and she was not hospitalized.
Bradford is still in jail, facing two counts of felony suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and a misdemeanor charge of resisting or obstructing officers. Bail is set at $40,000 and he goes to court Tuesday.
His companion also was arrested for fleeing from the officers but was released Saturday.
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