By Rick Hurd
Bay Area News Group
VACAVILLE, Calif. — A crew of jail inmates on clean-up duty with an officer overseeing them saved an 18-year-old woman who was being stabbed on a bike trail Tuesday, police said.
The assault of the woman happened in the area of Brookdale Court on the Alamo Creek bike trail, Vacaville police said in a statement. Officers were called there about 10 a.m.
According to police, an officer from the California Department of Corrections and the clean-up crew intervened when they saw a man stabbing the woman.
In their statement, police said they were “incredibly thankful for the CDCR employee and inmates whose bravery undoubtedly saved the woman’s life.”
Officers provided life-saving measures to the woman at the scene until an ambulance rushed her to a hospital, police said. She was in reported to be in stable condition at a hospital Wednesday night.
Police arrested an 18-year-old man on suspicion of attempted homicide. He was booked into Solano County Jail.