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CHP Officer Stabbed 9 Times on Freeway Overpass

By LOS ANGELES TIMES

CHP Officer Stabbed 9 Times on Freeway Overpass

October 26, 2012 Updated Oct 26, 2012 at 1:54 PM PDT

California Highway Patrol officer was in stable condition Friday after being repeatedly stabbed in his back, arms, face and eye by a man he was trying to stop from climbing the fence of a freeway overpass in Riverside.

Javier Hernandez Rios, 45, was booked into the Riverside County jail on suspicion of mayhem and attempted murder of a peace officer. He also was charged with assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer for the attempted stabbing of two off-duty officers who intervened.

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