News Former NASCAR driver Bobby East killed in stabbing at California gas station, officials say
News Former NASCAR driver Bobby East killed in stabbing at California gas station, officials say
Former NASCAR driver Robert "Bobby" East was fatally stabbed Wednesday at a Southern California gas station, authorities said.
The suspect in the stabbing was killed two days later in an encounter with police who tried to arrest him at an apartment complex, Westminster police said
Police were called shortly before 6 p.m. to a gas station in Westminster, an Orange County city, and found East with a stab wound to his chest, the department said in a statement.
East, 37, was taken to a trauma center, where he died of his injuries, officials said.
Westminster police detectives identified a parolee from Orange County, Trent William Milsap, as the suspect.
When the West County SWAT Team went to an Anaheim apartment complex Friday to serve an arrest warrant, Milsap "became confrontational," a police dog was deployed and Milsap was ultimately killed in a shooting with police, the department said.
The motive for the attack that killed East was not known, police said Saturday
Westminster police initially described Milsap as a transient know to frequent hotels in Westminster as well as in nearby Garden Grove and Anaheim. An earlier news release on the attack spelled the suspect's last name as Millsap and said he was 27.
He was on parole for armed robbery and an arrest warrant had been issued for him on an unrelated parole violation, police said.
In its statement, Westminster police said East has been identified as a former NASCAR driver.
The Westminster department said East is from San Dimas, a city in eastern Los Angeles County.
Early Saturday evening NASCAR released a statement acknowledging the death of one of its own.
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