One stabbed, teen arrested in four-person fight in Santa Rosa neighborhood

An 18-year-old Santa Rosa man was arrested Sunday after he and another man came to the aid of a friend during a fight in the city’s junior college neighborhood. That friend emerged from the scuffle with superficial stab wounds indadvertantly caused by the responding teenager, according to police.

Darrick Allister Zarate was arrested for two counts of suspected assault with a deadly weapon in the wake of the four-person fight that left a trail of blood — his friend’s — on lower Beaver Street.

Santa Rosa Police Lt. Marcus Sprague said the incident unfolded shortly after 8:45 a.m. after an argument over social media lead a man to drive to Beaver Street, where he was confronted by three other young men outside a home between College Avenue and Benton Street.

A fight ensued in which one of the three who came out of the house ended up stabbing or cutting another one of the trio inadvertently and repeatedly, inflicting wounds on his forearms, Sprague said.

The man who’d come in the vehicle, meanwhile, ran north toward Benton Street to his car, while the wounded man gave chase, Sprague said. Once the fleeing man drove away, the injured man returned to his friends. As police arrived, he was seen running away, but was caught and detained, authorities said.

The injured man was taken to Kaiser Medical Center by ambulance with minor wounds.

Police at midday had not yet located the man who fled but believed they had him identified, Sprague said. He apparently was uninjured.

The department’s violent crimes investigations team was called to investigate the case and arrested Zarate on Sunday afternoon.

He was booked into the Sonoma County jail on two counts of felony assault and was being held in lieu of $30,000 bail.

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