Homeless man stabs Santa Monica caretaker at Palisades Park

File photo of Mary Leipziger

Ambassador next to the beach. The persons depicted were not involved in the incident described in this article.

A homeless man stabbed to death an SM keeper downtown at Palisades Park on Wednesday morning at 8:15 AM PST, March 15, 23. The victim is reported to be in a stable condition. He was taken to the Ronald Reagan Medical Center at UCLA, the closest trauma hospital to Santa Monica.

SMPD posted the following on their Instagram account on 03/16/23:

The Santa Monica Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID), in conjunction with the Special Operations Division, has identified and arrested a suspect involved in the attack that took place yesterday morning.

On March 15, 2023, at approximately 8:15 a.m., patrol officers responded to an emergency call from an ambassador downtown who reported a subject in Palisades Park near a camera obscura. Officers arrived to find a Santa Monica employee who had been stabbed in the upper torso while trying to wake a man sleeping in the area. The suspect fled the scene before police arrived. The Santa Monica Fire Department rushed the victim to a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.

CID detectives were able to identify a possible suspect this morning, and at approximately 11:00 a.m., officers located and arrested him. Custody for aggravated assault: Barna, Allen Cranford Date of birth: 06/10/1982.