MIAMI — Panhandling outside a north Miami beach restaurant turned into a stabbing inside the restaurant, Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said.
The woman stabbed in Fritanga Pinolandia, 1100 NW 119th St., is in stable condition, MDSO said.
Damaris Rodriguez, 22, was arrested on a charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon Wednesday afternoon. The arrest returned Rodriguez to Miami-Dade Corrections custody 13 days after she was released on her own recognizance following an October arrest for cocaine possession.
That October arrest occurred at 1085 NW 117th St., a house two blocks from Pinolandia, but Rodriguez’s address on that arrest form is “homeless.” Wednesday, MDSO said, she was in front of Pinolandia asking for money just before 2:30 p.m.
When a woman rejected her, MDSO said, Rodriguez followed her inside the restaurant and started a fight.
“She stabbed the victim in the upper extremities,” MDSO said.
Rodriguez was arrested while Miami-Dade Fire Rescue took the stabbed woman to a hospital.
Video from inside the restaurant shows the confrontation that led to the stabbing. Aerial footage captured the scene shortly after the attack around 2:30 p.m.
Restaurant manager Bernardo Ruiz told Herald news partner CBS News Miami the women had been arguing outside for days before the fight moved inside, frightening staff and customers.
“One of the lady … she came with scissors in her hands, and she start to hurt the other lady four times on the head inside of my business. So all the customers and our staff was scared to see that, you know?” Ruiz said.
“They running out. They was scared to see the lady with the scissors and blood coming out,” he added.
By DAVID J. NEAL/Miami Herald
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