A woman asking for directions in Ocean Beach was stabbed during an attempt to steal her purse Saturday, but she fought back and her assailant fled empty-handed.
The 55-year-old victim asked the suspect for directions while in her car in an alley off Santa Monica Avenue near Santa Barbara Street around 3:15 p.m., San Diego Police Sgt. Ray Battrick said.
Instead of helping the woman, the man stabbed her in the left thigh with a steak knife and went for her purse, Battrick said. But the woman fought with the suspect until he took off.
Battrick said the woman was taken to a hospital to be treated for a deep, but non-life-threatening stab wound.
Police described the suspect as white, around 40, 6-feet tall, 200 pounds and possibly homeless.
He had unkempt curly black hair and was wearing a red shirt with a circle design and sleeves past the elbows, dark shorts, black gloves with the fingers cut off and was pushing a stroller or a golf cart bag.
— City News Service
