Stabbings of Employees Continue in Separate Incidents Across Country

Washington, DC (WorkersCompensation.com) – Police are searching for two suspects wanted for possibly stabbing a convenience store.

According to police reports, around 5 p.m. on Feb. 9, the victim was working at a convenience store in the 6200 block of Georgia Ave. Police said they were called to the store for a possible robbery and when they found a worker who had been stabbed.

The worker told police he had noticed a man shoplifting and when he confronted him, the man stabbed him multiple times. The employee said he fought back and the two got into a more physical altercation. Another suspect entered the store and separated the two men. The employee told police that as he escorted both men out of the store, the second suspect showed him a gun and threatened to kill him if he followed them any further.

After the employee backed up and let the two men leave, the two suspects fled the area and headed south.

Officials said the employee was treated at the scene and then taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.

Video of the assault was released by the police. One of the men involved in the assault appeared to be a white man with a full beard and mustache wearing a black sweatshirt. The Metropolitan Police Department is offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who provides information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspects.

On the same day in Spokane, Wash., a store employee confronting another supposed robber on the other side of the country was stabbed.

The Spokane Police Department is asking for the public’s help in finding the suspect they said stabbed the employee. Officials said the victim was working in a business near 1700 West Francis Avenue. The employee told police he confronted the suspect and accused him of stealing from the store. The suspect turned on the victim, stabbed them, and then fled the store.

Police said the victim was transported to a local hospital and was treated for non-life-threatening injuries. The Spokane Police described the suspect as a white man in his late teens or early twenties wearing a black sweatshirt and carrying a black backpack.

And in Carver, Minn., a Kansas man is serving time after pleading guilty to stabbing a 17-year-old employee at a farm store.

Police said Gerald Dwayne Hudson pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree assault after stabbing the employee inside Carver Fleet Farm. Hudson had also been charged with second degree assault with a dangerous weapon for his role in the November 2024 stabbing.

According to court records, Hudson entered the guilty plea for first-degree assault in exchange for the second-degree assault charge being dropped. A Carver County judge sentenced Hudson to 84-months in jail – seven years – with credit for 72 days of time served.

Police said they responded to Fleet Farm on Nov. 24 for a call of a stabbing after 2 p.m. When they arrived, they found a female stabbed in the back of the neck.

According to the surveillance video, a man headed into the store after 2 p.m. and walked past the victim in an aisle. Video shows the man got to the end of the aisle and looked both ways and then doubled back toward her.

While the employee’s back was turned to the man, video shows he made a “striking movement” toward her neck and then ran out of the store and into the parking lot. There, he got into his car and drove away.

Inside, the victim grabbed the back of her neck. A witness told police the employee screamed “he just stabbed me.” According to the complaint, the teenager sustained a “2-3-inch-long laceration” to the back of her neck. Police said the injury was consistent with being stabbed by a “sharp elongated object.” The girl told police she didn’t know the man.

The victim was transported to the hospital in critical but stable condition, police reports said.

Police identified Hudson as the suspect and located his car in Chanhassen. After conducting a high-risk traffic stop, police took Hudson into custody, police said. Hudson allegedly told the authorities that he had asked the girl where something was in the store and “maybe she said something that didn’t sound right to me.” He told authorities that he picked up a “thing” and hit the victim with it.

"There wasn't any kind of deadly weapon that was involved like a gun, a knife, or a bat or anything like that, there was just like a quick brief conversation, and I just like, I just well hit her with a plastic thing," Hudson allegedly told police while he was in jail, according to police records. The weapon has not yet been recovered.

Hudson will serve his time in the Minnesota Correctional Facility in St. Cloud, officials said.

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