Stabbed man who sought help at St. Petersburg school was road rage victim, police say
A man who showed up at a St. Petersburg elementary school with stab wounds on Tuesday was a road rage victim, and the man accused of stabbing him has been arrested on an attempted murder charge, police said.
Shortly after 3 p.m., a man arrived at Sexton Elementary School, 1997 54th Ave. N., to “pick up a child and seek assistance for stab wounds,” the Police Department said in a news release Tuesday afternoon.
St. Petersburg Fire Rescue units took the man to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said.
In an update released Tuesday night, police said the man, 28, got into an argument with Jose Rafael Rabel Oneill as the two men were stopped in their vehicles at a traffic light at the intersection of 54th Avenue and 19th Street.
Both men got out of their vehicles and began to fight. Oneill, 34, of St. Petersburg armed himself with a knife and stabbed the other man multiple times.
The man sought help at Sexton Elementary and was taken to Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital in St. Petersburg, where he was listed in serious but stable condition, police said. Police have not released his name.
Oneill left the scene of the fight but later contacted police. He was arrested on a charge of attempted first-degree murder and was being held without bail Wednesday in the Pinellas County Jail.
