Just two months after he was wounded while famously thwarting an attack on a Paris-bound train, Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone was stabbed early Thursday near a bar in northern California, officials say.
Sacramento police said a man was stabbed more than once during an altercation near a bar in the city before 1 a.m., and taken to a hospital with wounds that were not life-threatening.
The wounded man was Stone, a U.S. defense official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Police didn’t release the injured person’s name.
Stone, who is stationed at nearby Travis Air Force Base, is being treated for injuries at a hospital, Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek said Thursday.
Further details about the stabbing weren’t immediately available.
Stone was one of five men who officials say stopped a gunman from attacking passengers of a Amsterdam-to-Paris train in August.
Stone rushed the gunman and was slashed several times with a box cutter in the process — almost severing this thumb, officials said.
He also tended to one of his fellow heroes, French-American Mark Moogalian. The latter was shot while confronting the gunman, and Stone, after the gunman was subdued, was credited with helping stop Moogalian’s bleeding.
All five were feted. Stone, Moogalian and the other three — Briton Chirs Norman and Stone’s two American friends, Anthony Sadler and Army National Guard Spc. Alek Skarlatos — received France’s highest recognition, the Legion of Honor.
The suspect in the train assault, Ayoub El Khazzani, 25, of Morocco, was charged in France with attempted murder, attempted mass murder and membership in a terrorist organization, accused of intending to kill the train’s passengers.