OXNARD : Woman Tries to Steal Purse, Stabs Victim
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Police are searching for a woman who tried to snatch another woman’s purse and then stabbed her in the hand in the parking lot of a south Oxnard grocery store.
The victim, Paula Mendoza, 27, of Port Hueneme was taken to St. John’s Regional Medical Center, where she was treated and released after the incident Monday.
According to police, the incident occurred shortly before 4 p.m. at the Jonsons Farms grocery store at 1111 E. Channel Islands Blvd. As Mendoza was parking her car, a woman wearing white pants and a white jacket yanked the driver’s side door open. The woman threatened to kill Mendoza if she did not give up her purse. Mendoza refused, and the woman stabbed her in the hand.
Mendoza’s two children, ages 4 and 5, watched the attack from inside the car.
After the stabbing, the assailant left in a white, 1970s-model Cadillac, witnesses told police. The car was last seen driving west on Channel Islands Boulevard.
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