Suspect captured after machete attack on 60-year-old Rancho Cordova cyclist, official says - KCRA Sacramento

A antheral suspected of attacking a 60-year-old bicyclist with a machete successful Rancho Cordova connected Monday has been apprehended, a Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson said connected Wednesday. The victim, who has not yet been named, was "gravely" wounded successful the battle and officials said his injuries are "not survivable."The suspected attacker, 42-year-old James Hall, who is unhoused, was recovered astatine Shasta Community Park pursuing a manhunt, spokesperson Rod Grassmann said. Hall had taken nationalist proscription to Cosumnes River College successful Sacramento past went to the adjacent park. He was cooperative during the apprehension and has been booked successful jail, Grassmann said. The motive is inactive unknown. Hall is believed to person deed the antheral successful the caput with a machete Monday astir 6:15 p.m. adjacent Zinfandel Drive and Italia Way, Grassmann said. He was considered a hazard to the nationalist and to instrumentality enforcement officers. While Grassmann would not spell into details arsenic to however detectives were capable to sanction Hall arsenic the suspected attacker, helium did accidental that deputies person the machete utilized successful the attack, on with “quite a trove” of grounds recovered astatine the Cordova Lane Center preschool. Hall is believed to person near the grounds astatine the adjacent preschool the nighttime of the attack.Watch the afloat briefing by the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office below“We are tracking you and we volition get you,” Grassmann said connected Tuesday night. We volition apprehension you and bring you to justice.”Hall is an unhoused idiosyncratic known to predominant the Rancho Cordova and Sacramento areas.The sheriff’s bureau provided a 2016 booking photograph of James Hall, but his transgression past is not known.Grassmann said the 60-year-old unfortunate had conscionable retired from moving for the authorities and has lived successful Rancho Cordova each his life. He was riding his electrical bicycle and had not noticed the antheral believed to beryllium Hall approaching him.After the antheral was struck by the machete, Grassmann said helium managed to proceed riding for astir 400 feet earlier falling to the ground. A passerby spotted the antheral and assumed helium was the unfortunate of a hit-and-run crash.Sacramento Metro Fire Department unit who responded soon realized the antheral was not the unfortunate of a clang and notified Rancho Cordova police. The antheral was transported to a infirmary and is not expected to survive.On Tuesday morning, the preschool went connected a 20-minute lockdown portion detectives collected “several articles” of evidence. It is not known if the machete was recovered astatine the preschool.Detectives were astatine the transgression country each nighttime and into overmuch of Tuesday.The sheriff’s bureau connected Monday nighttime besides got a telephone astatine 8:18 p.m. from a idiosyncratic acrophobic that their household subordinate had not yet returned location aft going connected a motorcycle ride. Detectives were capable to link that missing idiosyncratic study with the attack.