Man in ninja costume attacks US soldiers

• Published date: 02 October 2021
• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

A log of the incident from the Ridgecrest Police Department showed that officers responded to a report at 1:20 a.m. saying that a man "with a sword" was in the parking lot of the airfield, Sky News reported.

After a military incident report of the attack gained traction on social media, it was confirmed by the spokesman for the US Army Special Operations Aviation Command, Maj. Jeff Slinker.

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A staff sergeant was outside the hangar's administration building when the assailant, wearing a ninja costume, asked him, "do you know who I am? Do you know where my family is?" After the soldier replied no, the man struck his phone, knee, and leg with the sword. The soldier then ran into the building, locked the doors and called the police. The man punched...