A BMX-riding man with a lengthy criminal history has been arrested after he allegedly stabbed 11 people in a random frenzy in Albuquerque, New Mexico, police said.
Tobias Gutierrez, 42, was booked into jail on charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, Albuquerque police said Monday.
The string of stabbings, which occurred within hours of each other starting Sunday morning, appeared to have been committed at random along Central Avenue, one of the city’s main thoroughfares.
“There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason,” police spokesman Gilbert Gallegos said of the attacks.
The stabbing spree began around 11.15 a.m. when cops found a man suffering a laceration to his hand.
About an hour later, another call came in about a stabbing outside a smoke shop near the University of New Mexico where the suspect had asked the victim for money and yelled obscenities before stabbing them.
Police were called to two more stabbings along Central Avenue over the next two hours before another call came in at 2 p.m. when two people suffered neck wounds outside a convenience store.
Two additional calls came in 20 minutes later — and the final one involved a stabbing outside a restaurant.
Gutierrez was taken into custody after cops saw him dumping something into a trash can right before officers stopped him. Officers later recovered the knife used in the stabbings.
Gutierrez’s rap sheet includes federal felony offenses ranging from burglary to battery and possession of a controlled substance, according to court records.
He has also previously been charged with driving while intoxicated.
In 2014, the suspect failed to appear in court for driving on a revoked license, records show. He told the court via a handwritten note that he was in federal custody in another county and was making an effort to better himself while incarcerated.
Tobias Gutierrez was arrested on charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. Adolphe Pierre-Louis/The Albuquerque Journal via APHis federal prison sentence stemmed from a case where he entered a tribal casino just outside Albuquerque while armed with a revolver and ammunition.
Records show he was released from federal custody in 2020.
With Post wires
