A 40-year-old Santa Rosa transient was in custody after roaming a Santa Rosa Safeway parking lot, threatening patrons with a large kitchen knife and attempting to carjack a vehicle.
Santa Rosa police said Elijah Beck was being held in Sonoma County Jail on carjacking, criminal threat and assault with a deadly weapon charges.
It was reported that the suspect had slashed the tires of a vehicle with a knife, stabbed a victim and tried to carjack another vehicle. He first approached a female victim, who was parked and sitting in the front seat of her vehicle near the south end of the parking lot, and allegedly brandished a large kitchen knife at her window and told her to get out or he would kill her.
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