Police looking for stabbing clues

Amber Willard

NORTHWEST GLENDALE -- Glendale Police were searching Tuesday for

information about a stabbing in which a man allegedly attacked his victim

outside a restaurant and then chased him.

Masis Grigoryan, 42, was being held in a secure ward of a Los Angeles

hospital Tuesday after his arrest Sunday. Grigoryan suffered cuts to his

head after crashing his car in the 1100 block of West Glenoaks Boulevard,

then got out and stabbed Sedrak Avakyan several times, police said.

“We’re asking that anyone with information about witnesses or a motive

call police,” police spokesman Sgt. Bruce Fox said Tuesday.

There is no indication the two men knew each other, Fox said.

Avakyan remained at a Los Angeles hospital Tuesday in stable

condition, officials said.

Avakyan, also 42, was sitting at the Caravan Restaurant shortly after

noon Sunday when Grigoryan crashed his car into another man’s car, police

said. Grigoryan allegedly got out of his car, and after inspecting the

damage, yelled obscenities at Avakyan before stabbing him with a paring

knife.

Avakyan, who had been stabbed in the face and chest, ran east on

Glenoaks Boulevard but was followed by Grigoryan and stabbed again. The

Glendale man was stabbed a total of nine times, police said.

When Grigoryan saw officers after the attack, he allegedly threw the

knife -- which had a 3- or 4-inch blade -- under his car.