Person stabbed on light rail in downtown Tempe, Tempe AZ
AssaultA person was stabbed on a light rail train in downtown Tempe, Arizona. Blood was found on the train and platform. The victim was transported to a hospital for treatment. Authorities stopped the eastbound train and searched for the suspect. Roads and light rail services near the area were affected due to the incident and the presence of blood in the westbound lane.
Audio|Source: Tempe Police Department - Mill Avenue Downtown District
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Transcript:
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71.70, can you tell what type shoes he's wearing right now?
00:05
I don't see. He's wearing a black converse.
00:10
Copy. So I got his, I got his footprints here with Blood Trail.
00:18
Two chest hills are fired.
00:21
10-4[1]-5-9-31.
00:23
Third.
00:31
Have you a minute.
00:36
Anyone, can we stop the light wheel traffic coming to us for Eastbound?
00:45
September.
00:50
Nick, what's having did our call come out?
00:52
Midnight 20-20.
00:58
706 location change to below for one-four thousand hours seven on this call can you start one to follow into the hospital please or was it can you can I copy that
01:23
7-1-7 is the base in which hospital? Hey guys, close to the conductor of the light rail.
01:27
Tell them to get them out of here, please, so we can start getting our guide.
01:32
We're going out of the hospital.
01:33
They haven't loaded them up on the gurney yet.
01:39
Anyone, I need this train out of the area.
01:43
So anyone, we're in on the line with them.
01:50
Forward 13 to the bike unit.
01:56
7 is on team.
01:57
They're asking if they're needed here.
02:04
Mike 70, we do not need for 7 right now.
02:08
Mike 70, can we reach out to Valley Metro and ask him to check the eastbound terrain that left the platform around the time of call for service just to see if there's any blood there to see if the stabbing occurred on the train?
02:24
Do you have a train number?
02:27
I don't. I'm just guessing for the around the time of the call it came through.
02:32
Maybe they can pull it up.
02:34
Time for what time?
02:40
At bike 70s, based on the flood trail, it happened on the train.
02:46
Medic 276 will be transporting one with South Hill Osborne.
02:51
Tens, one, 413, copy.
02:55
13 copy.
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6704. At 1206, there's a light rail in the platform and three sovich are seen running south down towards college.
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Please, copy.
03:14
Anybody can I give the description of them? Working on this still.
03:24
Next, 704. Touch base of the ACPs think their R-Tock is up and running.
03:30
Sounds far.
03:33
7-04.
03:35
In that video footage, did you see a train number?
03:41
Negative quality is still pretty bad.
03:42
I'm working on the description and the train number.
03:45
10 first. Let me watch with that patrol officer.
03:48
Our victim is going to Scottsdale Osborne.
03:55
What time was that when the train pulled up?
04:02
70704 advice, Mid-O-Svorn.
04:09
The Eastbound train should be stopped.
04:16
78, copy, thank you.
04:22
We're probably going to have to shut down Westdown.
04:25
Lightwell as well. We've got blood in the Westbound lane.
04:29
September.
04:32
Mike 71, is that on the trap?
04:36
That's simple.
04:42
Seventy-one.
04:43
Seventy-one.
04:48
My road street is advising that they also have footage held on the terrain itself.
04:52
We're still trying to work on getting that eastbound train information.
04:59
Copy. Are they saying they actually have footage of the internet occurring on the train?
05:03
They're not sure if they have footage of the incident, but they do have video on the train itself that we'll try to get from them.
05:10
10-4[1], when you get a 21 for that contact, let me know and then I'll have one of my officers to go hold of them.
05:18
Yeah, 104, we're trying to get a lieutenant for them now to get it a little bit faster.
05:23
And 7-1, we also have a citizen calling in saying that they were on the train and on a 239 with a mail on the Eastbound train.
05:34
Seventy-eight copied that.
05:36
Two questions.
05:37
Do we know where the train has stopped at now? And also, can we get a 21 contact for that window?
05:45
Temporal. I'll get the location without you spent train.
05:50
We're pulled off the bike 70.
05:52
Do you need traffic control? I can head your way.
05:56
We do not need traffic control.
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S Mill Ave, Tempe, AZ
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