A late-morning stabbing outside a Midway fast-food restaurant left a man dead Wednesday, authorities reported.
The assailant approached the McDonald’s in the 3800 block of Midway Drive in a light-colored mini-van shortly before 11:30 a.m., got out and immediately attacked the victim, according to the San Diego Police Department.
After chasing the victim in circles around a parking lot on the west side of the business and stabbing him with what police suspect was a knife, the killer got back into his vehicle and fled to the west, Lt. Jud Campbell told reporters.
“Detectives have determined the minivan was driven by a second person who drove through the lot with (a) sliding door open,” he said.
Following the assault, the killer – described as a roughly 5-foot-8- inch, 210-pound man – got back into the vehicle and was driven out of the area to the west, according to police.
The deadly encounter played out rapidly.
“The entire incident concluded in less than 30 seconds,” Campbell said.
Patrol officers and witnesses provided first aid to the wounded man prior to the arrival of paramedics, who took him to UC San Diego Medical Center, where doctors pronounced him dead.
The identity of the victim, who was believed to be in his mid-30s, was not released.
The exact circumstances that led to the stabbing were unknown.
“It think it’s too early to speculate, although it really does seem like there was something, maybe … (that) led up to this,” Campbell told news crews.
The lieutenant noted that there are numerous surveillance cameras in the area that likely captured images of the deadly assault.
“I’m pretty confident there’s going to be video,” Campbell said.
– City News Service
Updated 5:55 p.m. Aug. 30, 2023
