Two 18-year-old Healdsburg residents were arrested on Aug. 23 for attempted murder in a stabbing incident earlier this summer near Foss Creek Pathway and Grant Street. (Note: The location of this June crime was misreported in the print edition of this story, it is corrected here.)
Their arrest followed a months-long investigation into a June 2 incident, when Healdsburg Police dispatch received an 11pm call from an employee at Healdsburg District Hospital, reporting that a victim with multiple life-threatening stab wounds had arrived at the emergency department.
The initial details of the incident were sparse as the victim was uncooperative with responding officers. “However, through diligent investigation, law enforcement officials identified two suspects in connection with the stabbing,” the police department reported on social media.
Following that investigation, Anthony Lucas Cruz, an 18-year-old resident of Healdsburg, and Katie Anne Beth, also 18, were arrested together in a traffic stop, and booked into the Sonoma County Jail on charges of attempted murder (Penal Code 664/187(a)) and conspiracy to commit a crime (Penal Code 182(a)(1)).
Beth graduated from Marce Becerra in June. Lucas Cruz, not a student in Healdsburg, remains in custody with no set bail. He was charged on June 2 with felony attempted murder, inflicting great bodily harm, using a deadly weapon and criminal conspiracy to commit a crime.
Initially booked on similar charges, Beth was released from custody and now only faces criminal conspiracy. They will both next appear in court on Sept. 6, Beth to file a plea.
The June 2 stabbing incident was separate from a stabbing on Foss Creek Pathway in April that injured two, and in which the victims were also not cooperative. That investigation is ongoing.
