STABBING IN WATSONVILLE JG

WATSONVILLE POLICE ARE CONTINUING TO INVESTIGATE A STABBING THAT OCCURRED EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. OFFICERS RESPONDING TO A GROUP LOITERING IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE WATSONVILLE INN MOTEL ON MAIN STREET STOPPED A VEHICLE LEAVING THE SCENE. THEY FOUND ONE OF THE PASSENGERS HAD MULTIPLE STAB WOUNDS ON HIS UPPER BODY. PARAMEDICS RESPONDED AND THE VICTIM, 22 YEAR OLD JOEL HERNANDEZ OF CASTROVILLE, WAS TAKEN TO WATSONVILLE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL. HE WAS LISTED IN STABLE CONDITION AND HIS WOUNDS WERE NOT CONSIDERED LIFE-THREATENING. HERNANDEZ TOLD POLICE HE WAS VISITING FRIENDS STAYING AT THE MOTEL, AND WAS ATTACKED FROM BEHIND AS HE WAS LEAVING. NO DESCRIPTION OF THE SUSPECTS WAS GIVEN.