The 33-year-old Garden Grove man was taken into custody after he came out of a 7-Eleven in Santa Ana, southeast of Los Angeles, and dropped a knife along with a handgun that he had taken from a guard, police said.

The violence appeared to be random and the only known motives seem to be “robbery, hate, homicide,” Garden Grove police Lt. Carl Whitney said at a news conference.

“We know this guy was full of anger and he harmed a lot of people tonight,” he said.

The victims were Hispanic, he added.

The attacks on more than a half-dozen places took place over about two hours in Garden Grove and neighboring Santa Ana.

The two people who were injured were listed in stable condition late Wednesday night and were expected to survive, Whitney said.

Yeah, except he's Hispanic an illegal and a gang member. lol


"Police said the suspect, Zachary Castaneda, a 33-year-old resident of Garden Grove, used "multiple knives or machetes" in the attacks. At a press conference on Thursday afternoon, Chief Tom DaRé of the Garden Grove Police Department said Castaneda has been identified as a documented gang member. He had previously been in prison for possession of methamphetamine for sale while armed with an assault rifle."

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Thank god the guy couldn't get his hands an assault rifle. There could have been 100's killed.

Time to ban machetes

The only way to stop a bad guy with a machete is a good guy with a machete.

Everybody needs to buy a machete! If everybody carried concealed machetes there would never be any knife attacks.