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Man Pleads No Contest in Halloween Subway Stabbing
Lang David Dunbar faces eight years and four months in state prison when he is sentenced on March 22.
A Los Angeles man pleaded no contest Tuesday to charges stemming from a slashing attack on two people at a Metro Red Line station last November.
Lang David Dunbar, 25, pleaded no contest to two counts of assault with a deadly weapon and admitted the allegations of personal use of a knife and great bodily injury.
He is facing eight years and four months in state prison when he is sentenced March 22 by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Terry Bork.
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Dunbar was arrested Nov. 12 in Cleveland, Ohio, in connection with the Nov. 1 attack on the man and woman at the station at Hollywood Boulevard and Western Avenue.
The attack followed an argument that ensued when Dunbar made a disparaging comment about the woman's Halloween costume and escalated after her boyfriend intervened, according to the District Attorney's Office.
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The man was slashed in the neck and the woman sustained gashes to the face and the back of an arm, authorities said.
The assailant fled immediately after the 4:30 a.m. Nov. 1 attack.
