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Suspect arrested in double stabbing at Black Angus in Lancaster

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An argument at the bar between two groups of men escalated into a stabbing outside Black Angus March 7. (Photo by ED FROMMER)
An argument at the bar between two groups of men escalated into a stabbing outside Black Angus March 7. (Photo by ED FROMMER)

LANCASTER – A 47-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a double stabbing outside a local Black Angus Friday night, which stemmed from a group argument at the restaurant’s bar, authorities said.

Steven Alsobrook was arrested Saturday night on suspicion of attempted murder and booked at the Lancaster Station Jail on $1 million bail, according to a press release from the Lancaster Sheriff’s Station. Read it below:

On Friday night (03/07/14), an argument between a group of men occurred inside a west Lancaster restaurant [Black Angus] located on the 44000 Block of Valley Central Way.

The argument moved to the parking lot and escalated into a physical altercation.

One man was stabbed in the back, and another man was stabbed multiple times and listed in critical condition.
One man was stabbed in the back, and another man was stabbed multiple times and listed in critical condition. (ED FROMMER)

Suspect [Steven] Alsobrook was seen stabbing both victims and then fled the scene in a white pick-up truck.

Both victims were transported to a local area hospital. One victim was stabbed once on his back and the second victim had multiple stab wounds. [The victims, whose names were not released, were described as a 44-year-old white male and a 48-year-old Hispanic male.]

On Saturday evening (03/08/14), Lancaster Station Detectives along with patrol units and LANCAP Team members served a search warrant at a residence located on the 2600 Block of Minford Ct in the City of Lancaster.

They located and arrested suspect Alsobrook. He was booked at Lancaster Station Jail for attempted murder and held on $1,000,000 bail.

The victim stabbed multiple times was admitted to the hospital in critical condition Friday night, officials said. The man’s condition has now stabilized, and he is expected to recover from his injuries, Lancaster Community Relations deputy Miguel Ruiz said Monday.

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41 comments for "Suspect arrested in double stabbing at Black Angus in Lancaster"

  1. To the person who did the stabbing, will surely the pay for his doing. I mean hurting one of my familey members is not good for him…… Wait till the whole [removed] team hears about this, O.W.H.H ……….OFF WITH HIS HEAD.

  2. Let’s hope the female appreciates two strangers coming to her aid and trying to protect her. Don’t ever question our objectivity, karma can be a bitch. You should not have been abusing the female. Court… ARE YOU KIDDING? And people wonder why more of us do not stand up to an injustice taking place. Everyone has suffered. This case should be dismissed. Quit blaming the accused/victim in this case. WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE? What if that was your daughter, mother, sister? Wouldn’t you want someone to help her? These so called victims are at home laughing their asses off while this man who tried to help the woman is in jail. Are you kidding? The person(s) who originated the fight waiting outside and decided to beat him up should be the people in jail.

  3. Great now they are going to ban knives in California, or they will find a way to spin this into a gun control issue.

  6. How come the stabbings at Black Angus make media coverage but the stabbings at Schooners don’t get mentioned at all?

    Hey Black Angus, you need to up your media adverting I think!

  8. He who is without sin, cast the first stone. Sometimes good people make bad choices. I know nothing of this situation nor do I know either parties, but I know people make mistakes. It seems both parties went out to either have dinner or drink a little. Unwind from the day and hang out–we’ve all done it. However, the choices that were made have many people fighting for their lives–in court, in the hospital–whatever. Either way, it’s all messed up. I’m sad for everyone who now has to rebuild based on these poor decisions. Sigh.

  9. The bottom line to this whole incident is better to stay at home-going out at night in the good old AV can and will be hazardous to your health. When my wife and I want an evening out we go down the hill, I figure we will both live longer that way.

  11. Personally I would never go to that black angus, that whole area looks unsafe.

    • Black Angus is a great restaurant, the GM and mananagers are very good, as well as the bartenders! This is a rare incident there! The area is not bad, these things can happen anywhere! We are very familiar with this restaurant, what happened was sad but don’t judge till all the facts are in!

      • Great place to eat. Consistent. Food is always great and servers are friendly and take great care to meet your needs without hovering. Never had a bad meal or negative experience. Sorry this happened and really sorry it happened a Black Angus.

  12. If this happened the way Tracy says it did then my hats off to Mr. Alsobrook. A man has to do what he has to do to defend himself. If there’s more to it then it will all come out in the long run. I live in South Dakota. Up here if a couple of guys wait outside to beat a man up that was sticking up for some women that we’re being mistreated by men in a bar they get shot and the guy doing the shooting goes home. Not to jail. After living in California for 47 years I have to say that that is by far the worst state in the whole USA.

    • You are applauding lawlessness? According to the police report, 1 man was stabbed in the back.

      There is way more to the story I am sure.

    • If Mr. Alsobrook had been beat into a coma in front of his kid by these two guys that waited outside for him and they had gotten away would everyone be sticking up for these guys then?

    • Mike, sorry but Tracy has a great imagination. The poor guy who stabbed the victims is not a victim of anything other than poor judgement. HE followed them out as they were the first to leave. HE was drunk and looking for a fight. Really he is just a coward that had to stab someone in the back. BTW, Tracy is a friend of the suspect that is trying to make him look like a good person.

  13. the “men” are all in their mid to late forties…really? what horrendous behavior for people this age. SHAME ON ALL OF THEM

  14. This article FAILS TO MENTION that Mr. Alsobrook was trying to DEFEND the (SO CALLED VICTIMS) girlfriends INSIDE THE RESTAURANT where these men were treating these women poorly, where Mr Alsobrook was trying to HELP these women!!! The , so called victims were kicked out of the restaurant while Mr Alsobrook and his son remained to continue their meal. After at least a half hour passed, Mr Alsobrook and his son paid their bill and left the restaurant headed for home WHEN THE “VICTIMS” JUMPED MR ALSOBROOK AND HIS SON!! THE “VICTIMS” HAD “PRE-MEDITATING MOTIVES TO START THIS FIGHT!!! this article ALSO FAILS TO MENTION, the “VICTIMS” NOT ONLY JUMPED THESE TWO MEN, BUT ALSO BROKE MR. ALSOBROOKS LEG IN THE PROCESS OF TRYING TO HURT HIM AND HIS SON!!!! ITS A DAMN SHAME THAT PEOPLE SUCH AS MR ALSOBROOK COME TO THE RESCUE OF THESE WOMEN, and then ATTACKED, NOW DEFENDING HIMSELF AS WELL AS HIS SON, fought back and now is charged with ATTEMPTED MURDER!!!! WTF!!! The so called victims should have NEVER WAITED TO PHYSICALLY HARM MR ALSOBROOK AND HIS SON!!! Don’t you know that they got the wrong end of the stick and NOW MR ALSOBROOK defending HIMSELF has to be charged with ATTEMPTED MURDER??? WHERE THE HELL IS THE JUSTICE IN THIS WORLD??? THINK ABOUT IT?? WHAT IF IT WERE YOU? WHAT WOULD YOU DO? LET THEM BEAT THE HELL OUT OF YOU? I THINK NOT!!!!!! WOULD YOU DEFEND YOURSELF “AND YOUR CHILD?” These dumb ass men decided “AGAIN………..THEY WAITED FOR MR ALSOBROOK OUTSIDE, they were going to jump this man!!! AND ONLY BECAUSE MR ALSOBROOK TOLD THE MEN INSIDE THE RESTAURANT TO STOP ASSAULTING THESE WOMEN!!! I WOULD BET THESE SO CALLED VICTIMS BOTH HAVE CRIMINAL RECORDS!!! WHERE-AS MR ALSOBROOK “DOES NOT!” A NOTE TO TEXACALI: THE DUMB-ASS MEN THAT “WAITED OUTSIDE” TO OBVIOUSLY HURT MR ALSOBROOK AND HIS SON, ARE THE ONLY ONES THAT SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH A CRIME!!!! TEXACALI????? ARE YOU A MAN OR WOMAN? IF MR ALSOBROOK STOOD UP FOR YOU………… YOU WOULD BE THANKING HIM AND NOT TRYING TO SAY HE WAS A BAD PERSON!!!! WHAT PART OF PLANET EARTH ARE YOU ON!!!! MR ALSOBROOK SHOULD NOT ONLY BE ACQUITTED FOR DEFENDING HIMSELF AND HIS SON, HE SHOULD BE GIVEN A FREAKING MEDAL OF HONOR FOR CHIVALRY! This world has become WAR everywhere you look! PERSONALLY……AND IM SURE I SPEAK FOR MILLIONS OF WOMEN………….IT IS STILL WRONG FOR A MAN TO HIT A WOMAN……PERIOD!!! PRAY TO THAT GOD!!!!!! Remember that commandment TEXACALI : THOU SHALL NOT KILL!!!!!! It’s SOOOOOOO obvious that those so called victims shouldnt have tried to hurt Mr Alsobrook and his son!!!! TAKE THAT INTO YOUR PRAYERS!!! HAD THOSE IDIOTS NOT WAITED AND SIMPLY WENT HOME……….NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED!!! I WILL PRAY FOR MR ALSOBROOK AND HIS FAMILY BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN WRONGFULLY ACCUSED!!!! MORE POWER TO THOSE MEN WHO CONTINUE TO “BE MEN” AND HELP THE WOMEN FROM DANGER!!!! TO THE MEN WHO GOT HURT……………I GUESS YOU MESSED WITH THE WRONG MAN!!!! HE KICKED YOUR ASSES AND YOU TOTALLY DESERVED EVERY BIT OF IT!!!!!!!

    • Actually the suspect and his son were looking for a fight he had been drinking and anyone who carries a knife and is covered in prison tattoos is far from a model citizen. Anyone who has their son hold someone while he stabs them is absolutely disgusting in my eyes!!! The one victim was in his car already he ran to his friends aid. Your “innocent” suspect stuck his nose where it didn’t belong and actually got crazy on a couple females himself, myself being one of them. I’m sure he would of stabbed me too if I had tried to break up the fight. The victims “girlfriend” came in trying to start something and he was trying to get her to shut up because she was causing a scene. So before you open your mouth or keyboard I should say learn some facts because you sound just as ghetto and ignorant as the two suspects. As far as I’m concerned they both deserve life. The only shame here is that idiot reproduced and no probably cost his son his life as well.

      • ok,, the one that said the victims, “girlfriend” came in and started a scene and he was trying to make her shut her mouth,,,, YOU DONT KNOW THE FACTS,,,, i know all three of them and and she was not starting a scene at all !!! so YOU need to get the facts before you open your big mouth and post things you dont know about!!

        • AND NO ONE WAS BEING PHYSICALLY ASSAULTED,, IT WAS JUST AN ARGUMENT BETWEEN A COUPLE,,,WHERE ALL OF US HAVE BEEN THERE AND DONE THAT AT SOME POINT IN OUR LIVES,,, AND THIS GUY PUT HIS NOSE INTO A PLACE THAT HE HAD NO BUSINESS,, AND USED A KNIFE INSTEAD OF HIS FISTS,,,, END OF STORY!!!

        • Just because you know them doesn’t mean you know what happened first of all. Second of all I witnessed the whole things from beginning to end so unlike all of you talking about a situation in which you have no idea what actually happened I do have my facts straight. Also I am not sure what idiot is saying the victim hit a woman but you are dead wrong they had a verbal argument that was it. I’m sure everyone one of you have had at least a few of those in your lifetime and I highly doubt any of you feel you should be stabbed over it.

    • I sure hope you speak with his attorney. You could very well be the one to save him and his son from a life behind bars.

      • If she speaks to an attorney and goes as a witness, she will be charged with perjury.

    • If that was the case why flee and not call the police to give his side of the story? Why wait for them to come and arrest? Did any of the employees give their account of what happened inside?

    • And were you there? You claim that it is wrong to hit a woman, so did one of the men strike someone in the restaurant? if so, why were the police not called?

      If his leg was broke, did the police find him at the ER? Why did he have a knife in the first place?

      And may I add, the whole “men helping women thing” in reality hurts us women. We should be taught to protect our selves, both mentally and physically. Society does women no favors by teaching us that we need to be protected.

    • welcome to California – no “stand your ground” law here. Pull a weapon to defend yourself and you automatically go to jail no matter the circumstance.

      • CA does have a version of it, and it is generally referred to as Castle law

        “Any person using force intended or likely to cause death or great bodily injury within his or her residence shall be presumed to have held a reasonable fear of imminent peril of death or great bodily injury to self, family, or a member of the household when that force is used against another person, not a member of the family or household, who unlawfully and forcibly enters or has unlawfully and forcibly entered the residence and the person using the force knew or had reason to believe that an unlawful and forcible entry occurred.”

        But like most states it is limited to one’s home.

    • I agree with Jason,… Why flee? Why wait for the police to go get him from his house? Why didn’t he call 911 for help or waited for the police and give his statement? He made himself look the bad.

      • why flee? use/display a knife means auto arrest here in cali – it don’t matter what happened.. if you can make bail then u lucky.. but some people can’t.. many of us live month to month and can’t afford it.. so when you are involved in an incident like this you might sit in jail for a few months at least… and who will pay your bills and take care of your business while you in jail? Why flee? because just getting arrested can destroy your life. Its happened to many people.

        • Then perhaps someone should think before they act? The fact he was carrying a knife make me question his innocence. Why didn’t he go back inside?

    • Traci where did you find all the info and details? I know this man and his son they use to be part of the family. But is there another article somewhere that gives those details you claim?

  15. Jipjoe stfu, you have no idea what happened! I know the victims personally! You’re a douche!

  16. I hope that all of the victims recover successfully, with minimal scarring physically and mentally. Thank God the perpetrator was caught; I pray that he is punished to the full extent of the law for his crimes. God bless the victims and the families of all involved.

  17. Ghetto grows everywhere in the Valley; have you been to this Black Angus? To this shopping center? You have idiots on prescription drugs (like ALL school shooters) and no real father figure (Kalifornia hates fathers) and you have a ‘proven’ recipe for violent idiots like EVERYONE involved in this incident including the so called ‘victims.’