Stabber will take his motives to prison

A parolee who pleaded guilty to stabbing three people randomly in Chula Vista accepted his 26-year prison sentence April 14 without saying why he did it.

Gerardo Bejar, 45, said nothing before Chula Vista Superior Court Judge Garry Haehnle sentenced him. No motive has surfaced as to why he would randomly attack people he didn’t know in November 2014, November 2015 and Dec. 1, 2015.

“He’s extremely violent,” said Deputy District Attorney Victor Ou, who added that Bejar made no statement to Chula Vista police as to a motive.

One of his victims, a young man, watched the sentencing but said he did not wish to make a statement. He will be seeking restitution of approximately $4,000 which includes medical expenses, surgery and loss of income for an attack on Nov. 24, 2014.

Bejar, of Chula Vista, was willing to have his attorney represent him at a June 13 restitution hearing as he wanted to move on to state prison. His attorney gave no explanation for the stabbings, and Bejar was not interviewed by the probation department before they prepared a sentencing report.

Bejar pleaded guilty March 17 to three counts of assault with a deadly weapon for two stabbings in 2015 and the one in 2014. He agreed to accept the 26 years as punishment and the victims did not have to testify in court.

Bejar has been to prison before; he was paroled several weeks before the 2014 stabbing. He has two prior assault convictions for two previous stabbings in 2001 and 2004.

In 2001 Bejar was living in a group home and got into a fight. He used a broken broomstick handle to stab someone, said Ou. In 2004, a South Bay taco shop worker was stabbed.

A woman in a wheelchair was stabbed in the back on Nov. 17, 2015, on Industrial Boulevard. Her lung was punctured. Bejar asked a man if he had any rolling papers Nov. 23, 2015, at 7:30 a.m. before he stabbed him outside a Target store.

The last one occurred Dec. 1, 2015, to a man who was stabbed in the back on K Street while he was checking for mail at his parents’ house. Bejar got out of his Mustang while he was in traffic, stabbed the man, and then got back into his car and drove off. Police arrested him that day.

Haehnle gave him credit for serving 156 days in jail and fined him $2,864.