SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — The San Diego Police Department says it arrested a man wearing a bear Halloween mask who stabbed a man in the La Jolla Shores area.
According to SDPD, the incident happened around 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, as the man wearing the mask was walking around the beach near Kellogg Park, scaring people.
Police say the victim confronted the man in the bear mask for frightening people and questioned him about his behavior. This led to the mask-wearer punching the victim, then stabbing him in the shoulder and calf, SDPD says.
The stabber was arrested, and police say there were a lot of witnesses in the area at this time.
SDPD identified the suspect as 49-year-old Travis Acres, and he was charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Acres is no longer in the San Diego County jail.
One man says he saw a man matching that description with a bear mask on, walking his dogs up and down the beach earlier at around 2 in the afternoon. Uri Manor was with his wife and children, and decided to take photos of the man, though he got the "heebie jeebies."
"There were a lot of people around," Manor said. "Again, my instinct was like, we should be careful. I don't know if you want to get close to someone like that."
