Three men were stabbed at an Ethiopian Orthodox church in Oakland, California

Three men were stabbed at an Ethiopian Orthodox church in the Oakland hills on Sunday morning, authorities said.

The stabbing was reported just after 9 a.m. at the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Mekane Selam Medhane Alem Cathedral, located in the 4100 block of Mountain Boulevard near Highway 13, officials said.


When police officers arrived to the church, they found three men with minor to moderate injuries, Oakland police spokesperson Candance Keas said.

The three victims are residents of Oakland, San Francisco and Richmond, authorities said. Their identities were not immediately released.

Witnesses at the church apparently detained the individual who stabbed the three victims, and police arrested him. He was described as a man from San Francisco, authorities said.

Keas said officials were still investigating what led to the incident. It was not immediately clear if the suspect was a member of the church or if the incident was being investigated as a hate crime.

Phone calls to the church went unanswered Monday morning.

Sunday’s reported stabbing came amid a wave of violence impacting the city of Oakland, and a day after a shooting at a birthday party in the Longfellow neighborhood left two brothers dead and two other victims injured.

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