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Police arrest man in stabbing of Spencer Stone, hero airman

November 4, 2015 at 6:42 p.m. EST
During a ceremony in September at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter, left, awards then-Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone the Airman’s Medal for his role in disarming a gunman on a Paris-bound train Aug. 21.(Michael Reynolds/EPA)

Police in Sacramento, Calif., said Wednesday that they have arrested a man in connection with the stabbing of a U.S. airman who helped foil a terrorist attack by an armed gunman on a Paris-bound train in August.

James Tran, 28, of Elk Grove, Calif., was arrested Wednesday morning near his home and faces one count of attempted murder in the Oct. 8 attack on Spencer Stone, police said. Tran is accused of stabbing Stone four times in an altercation in Sacramento’s midtown area that began between Stone’s friends and another group of people.