Paris train hero is recovering from U.S. knifing
Spencer Stone, who helped thwart rail attack, is doing better after a street brawl.
Spencer Stone, the U.S. airman who gained world fame for helping thwart an attack on a French train and recaptured the spotlight as the victim of a Sacramento street brawl, is now “awake, able to get out of bed and in good spirits.”
The media staff of the UC Davis Medical Center on Friday upgraded Stone’s medical condition from serious to fair, meaning his vital signs were stable and normal. No additional medical information was provided.
Sacramento police continue to seek at least two people involved in the stabbing early Thursday on a street in a popular nightclub district.
Sacramento resident Cammy Ching, 28, said she was with four friends at the Badlands bar when one of them recognized Stone.
Some time after midnight Thursday morning, Ching said, she saw Stone leave. “He was carrying a friend on his shoulder, a girl who seemed to be passed out drunk,” Ching told The Times. Ching said the bar was selling $1 drinks from 11 p.m. to midnight that day.
Ching said she did not follow them outside and did not witness any part of the ensuing altercation.
Security-camera footage from a nearby liquor store shows Stone and a half-dozen people fighting. Some of those involved appeared to be fighting alongside Stone.
A second video released by police shows three people apparently fleeing through an alley and getting into a waiting car.
Stone, 23, was treated at a hospital for three stab wounds to the chest and had been in serious condition in the intensive care unit after surgery Thursday.
The U.S. airman was the first American to tackle a gunman aboard a Parisbound train over the summer. He and two friends were lauded as heroes and hailed by President Obama and French President Francois Hollande.