Layla Trawick Stabs 4 At ‘Target’

May 4th, 2010 - 6:56 pm ICT by GD  

By Gina Gomez
laylaCalifornia, May 4, (THAINDIAN NEWS) A 34 year old woman reportedly entered a West Hollywood Target store on Monday and stabbed four people who were shopping at the store with the two knives that she was carrying. The police have identified the woman by the name of Layla Trawick and say that she is probably suffering from some mental imbalance. Layla Trawick has been arrested.

Entertainment journalist Allison McNamara was one of the witnesses of the incident which left one person very severely injured and in critical condition. Allison McNamara recalls Layla Trawick screaming and plunging her knife simultaneously into the back of a male shopper at the store. Layla Trawick was apparently holding a steak knife in one hand and a butcher knife in the other, according to reports by the police.

It was Clay Grant Jr., the Deputy from the Los Angeles County Sherrif’s department who put an end to the rampage caused at the Target store on Monday, the 3rd of May. The man was off-duty but bravely took charge of the chaotic situation inside the store. Clay Grant Jr. took the woman at gunpoint, asking her to drop the knives. She did so and was immediately arrested.

The 34 year old woman hails from Antioch in California. Layla Trawick has hurt three women and a man with her knives. Though all of them are in local hospitals presently, the police have reported that there is no reason to worry, they will definitely survive. Layla Trawick is now inside the West Hollywood Sheriff’s Station jail. Footage of her actions on Monday have not been released by Target.

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