Victim Was ‘Bleeding Profusely’ From Stabbing in Arcata

Officers looking for the blood trail.

Officers looking for the blood trail. [Photo by Stormy Taylor]

About 9:45 p.m., a man came to the Patriot Gas Station in the Valley West area of Arcata saying he’d been stabbed in the back. He was reportedly bleeding profusely.

The victim was taken to the hospital and law enforcement, including the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department and the Arcata Police Department, are attempting to piece together what occurred.

Officers at the scene. [Photo by Stormy Taylor]

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Willie Caso-Mayhem
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5 years ago

How’s the victim doing?

S
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S
5 years ago

He is hole-y with a stab wound.
No update yet.

john
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john
5 years ago

So there’s a robbery at 9:15 and a stabbing before 9:45, both in the same area? Perhaps related?

HOJ in Training
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HOJ in Training
5 years ago
Reply to  john

Wait a second! Somebody actually got stabbed in the back?

I always thought that was just a saying people used to describe their worthless, no good, friends, relatives and co-workers!

I like stars
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I like stars
5 years ago

Why is Arcata so stabby? Shouldn’t a small university town be relatively safe?

Sheesh!!
Guest
5 years ago
Reply to  I like stars

All the dregs of society and unemployable felons moved here to work the below board cannabis industry. They are still here….

tax payer
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tax payer
5 years ago

can arcata make it a month without a stabbing? arcatas getting stabby again, classic arcata

'Merican
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'Merican
5 years ago
Reply to  tax payer

Is stabby preferred over shooty?
At least it’s quiet.

tax payer
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tax payer
5 years ago
Reply to  'Merican

oh they get shooty too

bwa
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bwa
5 years ago
Reply to  tax payer

So much Knife Violence, clearly we need some “common sense” knife control laws.

Bc
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Bc
5 years ago
Reply to  bwa

[edit] if he was shot in that same location he would probably be dead. I’m not taking a position one way or the other, but getting pretty tired of these crappy so-called logical analogies which are terrible

Lost Croat Outburst
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Lost Croat Outburst
5 years ago
Reply to  Bc

I thought it was funny. No sarcasm font. More’s the pity. Only the truth (or perceived truth) is funny.

Brutus
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Brutus
5 years ago

The area across Giuntoli Lane from the Patriot station is a homeless camp, with an incredible amount of garbage, stolen shopping carts, etc. Maybe people living there are cranky after being rained on for a few days. Someone used to come in occasionally and mow the grass and brush down to discourage camping, but I guess they’ve given up.

tax payer
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tax payer
5 years ago
Reply to  Brutus

an incredible amount of stabbings too. they used to live under the bridges but this year they put tons of big pokey rocks down there. they still live all along the river and arcata pd knows this they just dont like going down there.

local observer
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local observer
5 years ago
Reply to  tax payer

the rocks are a complete waste of taxpayer’s money.

tax payer
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tax payer
5 years ago
Reply to  local observer

its the end of the year they have to spend it somehow. geez. i know and you know we dont elect the people who make these decisions but we supposedly voted for more road taxes

local observer
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local observer
5 years ago
Reply to  tax payer

more road taxes? do you even know what measure 6 was?

tax payer
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tax payer
5 years ago
Reply to  local observer

yes more road taxes

California Proposition 6
Result Votes Percentage
Yes 4,883,114 43.22%
No 6,415,988 56.78%

the yes would have been to repeal the extra taxes

local observer
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local observer
5 years ago
Reply to  tax payer

and what does the “no” mean? does it mean more taxes? no it doesn’t. it means it stays the same as before. mean while cal-trans is in the homeless deterrent business.

tax payer
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tax payer
5 years ago
Reply to  local observer

A yes vote supported this initiative to:

repeal fuel tax increases and vehicle fees that were enacted in 2017

stays the same is a relative term. if you were born yesterday then it means it would stay the same but if you were paying taxes before last year then it would constitute as an increase in taxation (that we the people did not vote on in the first place. it was passed by the state senate and state assembly)

tax payer
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tax payer
5 years ago
Reply to  local observer

i watched them (caltrans) cut down a two story tree house the homeless made back there along the river and put the whole thing in a truck and took it away to dump it. this was a couple of years ago

Central HumCo
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5 years ago
Reply to  tax payer

Hard to believe isn’t it? Reminiscent of the wage initiative and Z resale tax in 2014. We’re supposed to believe that the voters do not want more take home pay -even tho this same day three other states and five California’ cities voted ‘yes’ on a wage initiative – and do want to pay more taxes.

Just doesn’t have the ring of truth to it.

When the countess counts the ballots, the ballots don’t count.

tax payer
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tax payer
5 years ago
Reply to  Central HumCo

i agree. and i find it funny that people like to complain about caltrans wasting money yet they want to just keep giving them more. geniuses

tax payer
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tax payer
5 years ago
Reply to  Central HumCo

i would like that little ballot machine to print me out a receipt showing what i voted on or what it counted my votes as. and i want the receipt to have a number attached to my individual ballot, just for my records, so if i decide i can send a copy to a watchdog group

tax payer
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tax payer
5 years ago
Reply to  Central HumCo

40 million people in california and only 10 million voted on this measure

Rule of Law not Leftists
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Rule of Law not Leftists
5 years ago

Stabcata!

Yellow
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Yellow
5 years ago

West side story ! Abracadabra ! they will reach out and stab ya !
Watch out for America’s scareiest college town how about mural of someone getting stabbed with blood all over it . It would be a like a Pacaso with a white outline of a body and some yellow tape for holiday cheer. Good grief !.

William Verick
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William Verick
5 years ago
Reply to  Yellow

If only the McKinley statute was safe this stabbing wouldn’t have happened. There’s more violence around the Plaza sports bars.

Al
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Al
5 years ago

Arcata should hire another officer to serve as a homeless ranger, and they need neighborhood watch groups, they have a good permanent police chief now.

Central HumCo
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5 years ago
Reply to  Al

OMG. If your comment has any viableness to it – IT WOULD HAVE BEEN DONE LONG AGO and we wouldn’t continue documenting our demise.

Corporations, being the unconstitutional construct that they are, ONLY look at the bottom $ line. They are criminals and thieves or they wouldn’t be doing what they do.

Divide by Zero
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Divide by Zero
5 years ago
Reply to  Central HumCo

A stabbing in ultra-liberal Arcata, and it’s the fault of Corporations?????? No, it’s the fault of local politics that turn a blind-eye to an obvious threat. Arcata is a thug-magnet.

local observer
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local observer
5 years ago
Reply to  Divide by Zero

most of the thugs we read about in Arcata grew up in Eureka. Valley west isn’t really Arcata, its an annex for low income housing. the majority of crime is a product of local conservative values. maybe focus on education. if you disagree please post your data that supports your statement. the stabber at the Jam went to Zoe Barnum like most of our local criminal you can search data on.

Central HumCo
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5 years ago
Reply to  Divide by Zero

The local politics in Arcata IS a corporation.

You guys make up your mind – Divide by Zero labels Arcata as “ultra-liberal.”

local observer says its conservative.

Maybe we can flip a coin to settle this?

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
5 years ago
Reply to  Central HumCo

Maybe Arcata is not a wholly homogenous community.

Central HumCo
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5 years ago
Reply to  Jaekelopterus

I’m with George Carlin on this – “It’s just one big stroke job from coast to coast.” Any lines between a quasi-municipality city and a county and the state and the fed and the global controllers has all but disappeared. Collective, group-think blend.

chasi
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chasi
5 years ago
Reply to  Jaekelopterus

OH you!…;-)

Hmmmmm
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Hmmmmm
5 years ago
Reply to  Divide by Zero

You’re So right.

Central HumCo
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5 years ago

Maybe Arcata Inc. should spend their abundance (extra time extended from fiscal year 2017-2018 to spend it), of ill-gotten gains (county sales tax chg’d in an incorporated city), in Arcata instead of helping out Garberville with an upgrade on their County-owned Vet’s Bldg.

Oh what a tangled web we weave . . .

Rebel Yell
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Rebel Yell
5 years ago

You get the society you deserve. The People’s Republic, Maoists all, reaps what it sows.

Sparklemahn
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Sparklemahn
5 years ago
Reply to  Rebel Yell

Hippies definitely got the society they deserved and peabrain prohibitionists don’t like it!

A Unknown
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A Unknown
5 years ago

In the old days of hippies lots of people carried a gun. No one knew who was armed and as such left everyone alone. Still works.

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
5 years ago
Reply to  A Unknown

Obviously not. The rates of violent crime in California have been declining since the early nineties.

Also, who conceal-carries a blackpowder pistol? In Arcata? Your powder would be too wet to fire in minutes.

tax payer
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tax payer
5 years ago
Reply to  Jaekelopterus

you mean the “reported” rates of crime

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
5 years ago
Reply to  tax payer

Do you have access the super-secret non-reported violent crime statistics? Do people just tend to walk it off nowadays when they spring a leak?

tax payer
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tax payer
5 years ago
Reply to  Jaekelopterus

it is not super secret. its not like i am making this up. lots of crimes go unreported. when all my tools were robbed by the homeless then the cops were called and they came but they refused to write a police report, so theres one less crime reported. then another time a guy was walking way off the road in front of my house (about 15 to 20 feet) and this truck went all four wheels off the road just to hit the guy at like 45mph. when the cops came they wrote it up that they guy went into the road and got hit by accident, so there is one less murder on the books (they wrote it up as an accident). people rob “shoplift” from stores all the time and the cops dont write police reports because they dont want their town to look dangerous. i am glad you have never had a crime committed against you and not reported

shak
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shak
5 years ago
Reply to  tax payer

Statistically, a gun is much less likely to be used in a crime than a Senator.

Central HumCo
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5 years ago
Reply to  shak

Now we’re gonna need a list of best comments for the year.

shak
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shak
5 years ago
Reply to  Central HumCo

It is a great one, I agree Give the credit to others though. https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/931189270701801472
I like some of the responses on there about needing senator control.

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
5 years ago
Reply to  shak

Citizens United says bribery is no longer a crime.

Central HumCo
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5 years ago
Reply to  Jaekelopterus

You do know where you are, right?

Sparklemahn
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Sparklemahn
5 years ago
Reply to  Central HumCo

Earth.

John Ripper
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John Ripper
5 years ago
Reply to  Jaekelopterus

That`s not a black powder pistol. It`s a sawed off break action shotgun. It does have exposed hammers, an obsolescent design although I believe they are still being made.

FYI, any shotgun with a barrel length of less than 18″ is quite illegal. A weapon such as the one in the photo is very effective and will produce an instant and permanent attitude adjustment.

Sparklemahn
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Sparklemahn
5 years ago
Reply to  John Ripper

Brutal yet true.

Joe
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Joe
5 years ago

Kym, you really should do a, “Best Comments of the Year!”

Central HumCo
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5 years ago
Reply to  Joe

As a Blackbelt raising a family, and supplying the glue that holds us together in here, i’m betting Kym’s plate is full.

Rather, what’s coming at us a g a i n on Wednesday (6-day notice of date change from Thursday to Wednesday), is Richardson Grove v CA Department of Transportation, dba CalTrans. In my Humboldt opinion, from the onset, the litigation is without merit/not withstanding, brought before an inferior court that doesn’t have subject matter jurisdiction.

The spirit of the law v the letter of the law.

PC
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PC
5 years ago

Arcata, Arcata, Arcata. “No Surprise”

Z
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Z
5 years ago

Shak, mind if I use your quote and give you full credit?

shak
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shak
5 years ago
Reply to  Z

I don’t know who first said it, I saw it on twitter a few times. It’s made the rounds for several years and now, or similar enough quote. Here’s one of the results from search engines https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/931189270701801472

John Ripper
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John Ripper
5 years ago

If anyone is contemplating shortening up a rifle or shotgun, the minimum legal length of barrel for a shotgun is 18 inches and for a rifle 16 inches. This is measured from the bolt face or breech face if it`s a break action gun. It`s a good idea to go 1/8 in or so on the long side just to be safe.

There is a minimum overall length as well which I forget. It should be easy to find online.

Brutus
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Brutus
5 years ago

I was at the Patriot station yesterday and spoke to the employee who was on duty when the stabbed man showed up. “They stitched him up and he’s out again,” he said.