By Bee Staff
The Woodland Police Department today released photos of a "person of interest' in one of the two stabbings Monday of men on bicycles by another bicyclist.
The Police Department said in a news release that the man pictured (photo above and inset) "is considered as a person of interest and may have witnessed" the stabbing at Pendegast and Pacific streets.
The attack was reported when Jose Alcantar, 29, of Woodland, walked into Woodland Memorial Hospital at 5:16 p.m. Monday. He was rushed into emergency surgery for a life-threatening stab wound to his side. He survived the wound.
Alcantar told Woodland police officers that he was riding his bicycle on Pacific Street at Pendegast Street when another bicyclist rode up from behind.
That man stabbed Alcantar with a knife.
A few hours later, someone on a bike stabbed another Woodland resident. Officers responded at 9:28 p.m. Monday to the report of a stabbing in the 600 block of Third Street.
Clarence Johnson, 65, of Woodland, said a man riding a low-slung, chrome-plated bike rode up to him on the sidewalk and stuck him in the abdomen with a knife.
Johnson described the man as a 6-foot-tall Hispanic man in his late 20s with a shaved head. He was wearing a white shirt and jeans.
The only description of the attacker in the first stabbing was that the suspect was Hispanic.
Anyone with information is urged is asked to call Woodland police at (530) 666-2411 or (530) 661-7800. Callers may remain anonymous.
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