OXNARD : Stabbing Called Case of Mistaken Identity
A case of mistaken identity resulted in a stabbing outside an Oxnard bar, police said Tuesday.
The incident began about 1:30 a.m. Monday when Eric Lino, 23, of Oxnard danced with another man’s girlfriend at the La Terraza Casino in the 600 block of South B Street, Oxnard Police Officer Rafael Nieves said. That prompted the man to pick a fight with Lino, Nieves said.
Security guards inside the nightclub broke up the fight, and Lino left the building.
A short time later, Reyes Solorzano Casillas, 20, of Oxnard left the building and Lino, thinking Casillas was the man that he had fought with earlier, allegedly struck him in the face with a beer bottle. Several other bar patrons and friends of Casillas attacked Lino, who was stabbed once.
Lino, who was reported in stable condition at St. John’s Regional Medical Center, has been arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.
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