Man Who Allegedly Stabbed Two in Coachella Arrested
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A parolee who allegedly stabbed a man and woman in Coachella last fall was in custody today on attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon charges.
Fernando Marquez Ramirez, 30, is being held in lieu of $2 million bail and is expected to make his initial court appearance on Thursday.
The Oct. 14 stabbings occurred just before 3 a.m. in the 52300 block of Las Palmas Street. A 30-year-old Thermal resident was hospitalized for stab wounds to his left side, while a 28-year-old Coachella woman was treated and released, sheriff’s officials said.
A parole violation report says the unnamed victims were in Coachella to help a friend look for his stolen bicycle. They drove into the city and stopped on Las Palmas Street because a bicycle resembling the stolen one was seen in the front yard of a home.
While there, according to a witness account cited in the report, Ramirez approached the victim’s car and said, “Don’t be going up and down the street. This is my street.”
Ramirez and the male victim began fighting, and the female victim tried to intervene, according to the report, which alleges both victims were stabbed by Ramirez but managed to flee in their car and stop at a nearby gas station to call police.
Ramirez was arrested later that morning, but was not immediately charged with the stabbings. He was held on a parole violation, to which he pleaded guilty in December and was sentenced to six months in county jail, but was released in January on parole supervision, court records show.
Sheriff’s deputies picked him up Tuesday on Highway 111 in Palm Desert.
Ramirez was previously convicted in March 2017 of attempted carjacking and resisting arrest and was sentenced to 18 months in prison. However, after earning more than two years of credit time served in county jail to that point, he was released on parole on the date of his conviction, court records show.
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