A woman who stabbed and wounded four people in a busy Target store Monday afternoon was arrested when an off-duty sheriff's deputy pulled his gun and ordered the woman to the ground as screaming shoppers ran from the building, authorities said.
Layla Trawick happening aimlessly sharp people with a blade about the volume of a kitchen knife at about 12:45 p.m., Los Angeles sheriff's Sgt. tease Mankini said. The 35-year-old Antioch woman was arrested with the help of personal wellbeing guards and booked on wariness of attempted murder.
some shoppers who saw off-duty deputy soil concede draw out his stick feared he was a gunman and began operation and screaming, adding to the discern of panic, Mankini said.
"If he wasn't there, who knows? somebody would be quiet right now," Mankini said. "He had no communication with exterior law enforcement. He's just some guy liability his shopping. We're cute proud of him."
