RIVERSIDE: Security guard stabbed in melee as mom tries to free tagger son

BY BRIAN ROKOS / STAFF WRITER
Published: June 5, 2015 Updated: 9:01 p.m.
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A clerk and a security guard were injured in a melee with a tagger and his family at a Dollar Tree in Riverside on Thursday, June 4, the Police Department said.
About 3:30 p.m. at the store at 4721 La Sierra Ave., an employee caught a boy vandalizing the bathroom with graffiti, Officer Javier Cabrera said. As the employee escorted the boy out of the store, the boy’s mother intervened, throwing the female employee to the floor and kicking her in the head.
When a security guard tried to help, the mother and her adult son attacked the guard, Cabrera said. During the fight, someone — it’s unclear who — stabbed the security guard.
The mother and the adult son were arrested, but the boy got away, Cabrera said. Police expect to arrest him soon.
The guard was treated at a hospital for injuries that Cabrera described as not life threatening.