Summarization of events written by the Veteran X Team.
- A man “in full ninja garb” attacked members of a special U.S. Army unit in the middle of the night in the California desert, sparked a fight for safety and resulted in at least two injuries, according to police records.
- The incident occurred shortly after 01:00 on September 18th at the Inyokern airport in Kern County, north of Los Angeles.
- “The suspect had assaulted a victim at the scene with a sword, and thrown a rock through a hangar window, hitting an additional victim in the head,” Kern County Sheriff’s Office stated.
- The incident occurred without warning.
- The victims are members of the U.S. Army 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR), according to the Stars and Stripes newspaper, and the military personnel were at the airport to carry out training exercises.
- After beginning a verbal conversation with a smoking Army staff sergeant, the man dressed as a ninja struck the staff sergeant’s leg and phone with the sword.
- The sergeant ran, jumped a fence and reached a building where he met with others from his company. When he and a captain locked the doors and called 911, the attacker kicked and slammed doors and windows, according to the report that blackened the soldiers’ names.
- The ninja disobeyed the orders of the deputies and was only apprehended after being tasered in nearby streets, dropping his sword and taken in by MPs.
- Gino Rivera, 35, was identified and arrested “for attempted homicide, assault with a deadly weapon, brandishing a weapon, brandishing a weapon with the intent to resist or prevent an arrest,” along with vandalism and obstructing or delaying an officer in the performance of their duties, the sheriff’s office said.
- Both the staff sergeant and captain injured in this bizzare event were stitched up and released to return to duty, according to the incident report.
Sourced from: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/01/1042487729/a-ninja-with-a-sword-assailed-a-u-s-army-special-operations-unit-in-california
Information vetted by the Veteran X Team.
