Conn. Police Stymied Finding ID Of Man In Casino Bus Stabbings
HARTFORD, Conn. (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Connecticut State Police are stymied as they try to identify the man who slashed two passengers in a box-cutter rampage aboard a bus on Interstate 95 before he was fatally shot by a trooper.
The man had no identification and was not known to the 20 other passengers on the bus Tuesday night.
Police said he stabbed a man and a woman with a box cutter on the bus headed to the Mohegan Sun casino from Chinatown. The bus driver pulled over in a highway construction zone in Norwalk and flagged down a state trooper on duty at the site.
Conn. Police Stymied Finding ID Of Man In Casino Bus Stabbings
As the trooper approached the bus, the suspect and a passenger "were engaged in physical combat, rolled off the bus and onto the pavement of the highway," state police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance said. The man also intentionally injured himself, Vance said.
The trooper was forced to open fire when the suspect came at him and refused to drop the weapon, Vance said.
The man died at a hospital. In addition to the two people who were stabbed, another person suffered non-life threatening injuries when a bullet from the officer's gun ricocheted off the pavement.
Hearst Connecticut Media reports that investigators are consulting law enforcement bureaus around the country to determine the identity of the man, who is Asian and in his 30s.
Without his name, the state medical examiner's office would not release the cause of death.
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