Man Sentenced in Halloween Subway Stabbing

A Los Angeles man was sentenced Tuesday to eight years and four months in state prison for a slashing attack on two people at a Metro Red Line station last November.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Terry Bork imposed the term on Lang David Dunbar, who pleaded no contest to one count each of assault with a deadly weapon and mayhem.

Dunbar, 25, 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 4:30 a.m. attack followed an argument that ensued after Dunbar made a disparaging comment about the woman's Halloween costume and escalated after her boyfriend intervened, according to the District Attorney's Office.

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 attack, and the station was closed for a time.

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