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Tilden Park stabbing witness & car sought

Daily Planet Wire Report
Wednesday May 01, 2002

East Bay law enforcement officials are searching for a gray 2001 Honda coupe that belongs to a man who was found Sunday afternoon in Tilden Park suffering from multiple stab wounds, and a woman he apparently picked up before being stabbed. 

East Bay Regional Park Police spokesman Jon King said their officers and Berkeley police officers responded at about 2 p.m. to Grizzly Peak Boulevard and Spruce Street where they found the victim. The victim had been stabbed with a knife multiple times in the chest and neck, King said, and as of yesterday was undergoing surgery at Highland Hospital. 

“We're looking for the vehicle and the other person,” King said. 

The victim told officers that he picked up the woman and drove into Tilden Park where the stabbing occurred while they were parked at the end of Brook Road near Lake Anza. 

“We don't know exactly what happened,” King said. 

Investigators are not sure whether the victim and the woman knew each other, where the victim picked her up or why he picked her up, King said. Those questions will have to wait until after the victim is out of surgery, he said. 

King said they are searching the area for the woman and the car, which the victim said has a roof rack. The suspect is described as being a medium built white woman, about 19 years old, with a blond ponytail. She was last seen wearing a blue shirt and blue jeans.