Air Force: French train hero stabbed in California

The trio were also invited to the White House by President Barack Obama and Stone received a Purple Heart and Airman’s Medal from the Pentagon.

A surveillance video from a camera outside a Sacramento liquor store captured the knife fight that injured a US airman who helped thwart an attack on a French train this summer.

FILE – In this September 17, 2015 file photo, Defense Secretary Ash…

Stone was one of five men who officials say stopped a gunman from attacking passengers of a Amsterdam-to-Paris train in August. He was expected to pull through.

Police released surveillance footage of the attack, showing the altercation between the two groups.

Stone was stabbed early Thursday in an apparent “nightlife-related” dispute between two groups of people in midtown Sacramento, city Deputy Police Chief Ken Bernard told reporters. “We know it is not related to what occurred in France months ago”.

The source said several of those in Stone’s group – three women and two men including himself – were drunk but it was unclear if he himself was inebriated. Bernard said they do not know if Stone was drinking, but Stone’s friends have said they consumed alcohol. Other circumstances of the attack are not yet known.

“Everybody send prayers out to the Stone family today”, he wrote.

Violence overseas made Stone, National Guardsman Alex Skarlatos and college student Anthony Sadler sudden celebrities in August.

He had boarded the train with a Kalashnikov rifle, a pistol and a box cutter.

Stone had only just returned to work at Travis Air Force Base in California.

He is the second of the three Americans to be touched by violence since returning home.

The 22-year-old had been due to attend the community college in Oregon where a gunman went on a rampage, killing nine people.