A Santa Barbara County sheriff’s deputy was stabbed early Friday morning while responding to a welfare check in Goleta, authorities said.
Deputies were dispatched shortly after midnight to La Posada, an interim supportive housing community in the 4500 block of Hollister Avenue, after a man called emergency dispatch “in an agitated state” and made statements indicating he intended to harm someone, according to a news release issued by Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Raquel Zick. The caller hung up and then phoned again minutes later, repeating the threat.
Deputies arrived around 12:13 a.m. and located the man — later identified as 44-year-old Abu Bakr Sugich — near the northeast corner of the property. Sugich “appeared extremely agitated,” and deputies initially maintained distance while attempting to calm the situation, Zick wrote…