– Alcohol a factor –
Sacramento police tweeted that the assault was “not related to a terrorist act,” seemingly ruling out a revenge attack over the train incident.
“Assault occurred near a bar, alcohol is believed to be a factor,” police said on Twitter.
Just weeks ago, the town of Sacramento staged a parade in honour of the trio of friends whose actions stopped a massacre.
Stone suffered deep slash wounds as he helped to overpower a heavily-armed gunman, 25-year-old Moroccan Ayoub El Khazzani, in the train attack on August 21.
Armed with a pistol, an assault rifle and 270 rounds of ammunition, Khazzani is accused of seeking to massacre passengers on the Amsterdam-Paris train.
Stone was awarded the Legion of Honour, France’s highest decoration, along with Army National Guard Specialist Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler, a civilian, for their role in thwarting the attack.
The trio were also invited to the White House by President Barack Obama and Stone received a Purple Heart and Airman’s Medal from the Pentagon.
Stone had been due to return to work this month at Travis Air Force Base in California.
Skarlatos, 22, also had a near miss last week as he had been due to attend the college in Oregon where a gunman went on a rampage, killing nine people and injuring nine others.
The 22-year-old says he would have been attending classes at Umpqua Community college in Roseburg – where he is assigned to an infantry unit – had it not been for all the attention he has been getting since the train attack.
He said he was in Los Angeles rehearsing for this season’s “Dancing With the Stars,” the popular show in which he has been invited to compete, when he heard of the shooting and rushed back to Roseburg.
“If I didn’t get called for ‘Dancing’ I would have been on campus,” Skarlatos said.
“I mean, it’s just absolutely insane to be in a situation like this, especially in my town, Roseburg,” he said. “This is a really small community and just something of this magnitude happening here is just very rare and just unheard of.”
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