A man was stabbed by a 400-pound, bearded woman soon after asking a group of people for a cigarette in East Village Wednesday night, police said.

The 39-year-old man walked up to the group on Park Boulevard near K Street about 7:40 p.m., San Diego police Officer Robert Heims said. After asking for the cigarette, a woman walked up to him, told him to get away from her things, and then stabbed him in the neck.

The victim was taken to a hospital with an injury that wasn’t life-threatening.

The assailant ran away heading south on Park. She was described as white and about 400 pounds with a beard. She was wearing a white shirt and jeans.


Police found a 24 year-old woman of her description in the same area the next day, Heims said. He said she apparently returned to retrieve her belongings. She was jailed on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.

lyndsay.winkley@sduniontribune.com