A hatchet attack at a bus stop on the Eastside marks the second hatchet-related assault at a Tucson bus stop in the past two months.
Tucson Police say a man tried to steal a woman’s phone, and when other men at the scene tried to help, a hatchet fell out of the waistband of one of the men trying to fend off the attacker.
A witness, Amy, was there when the fight started, “they were all going at it, and all of a sudden there was a hatchet.” Amy says she was the one the attacker approached first, thinking she was recording him. Amy tried to explain that she was not recording him.
Amy was born and raised in Tucson and has used public transportation for most of her life. “It’s not necessarily the buses that changed,” Amy explains, “just the people have changed.”…