A 30-year-old Anaheim man was charged Thursday with a pair of unrelated, unprovoked knife attacks on two men last year.
Erik Mejia Ureno was charged with two counts each of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon and faces sentencing enhancements for attempted premeditated murder, inflicting great bodily injury and personal use of a deadly weapon.
Ureno is accused of stabbing one man about 6:45 a.m. March 7, 2021, at Vermont Avenue and Citron Street, and another man about 7:45 p.m. June 29, 2021, at 600 E. Ball Road, said Anaheim police Sgt. Shane Carringer.
In both cases, the defendant had never met the victims before, Carringer said.
“He approached them without warning or provocation and stabbed them,” he said. Both victims were taken to area hospitals and survived.
Police were able to identify Ureno as a suspect based on evidence left at one of the crime scenes, Carringer said.
Ureno is scheduled to be arraigned May 16.