San Diego hotel clerk goes on a stabbing spree, attacking young female guest before fleeing and driving his car off a pier

A edifice table worker threatened a young female impermanent successful her room earlier stabbing her and driving his car disconnected a pier.

Aaron Tran, 23, was recovered drowned successful his achromatic Honda Accord adjacent nan USS Midway Museum successful downtown San Diego early connected Monday morning.

He was submerged nether 40ft of h2o aft doing doughnuts successful nan streets and  deliberately zipping disconnected nan jetty astatine 80mph.

The perplexing events began erstwhile Tran checked successful 2 women successful their 20s from extracurricular nan authorities to a room astatine The Shoal La Jolla Beach.

A fewer hours later, he called nan room to opportunity he needed to get wrong to hole a h2o leak, which constabulary said didn't exist.

One of nan women fto him wrong while her friend was dormant connected nan bed, and they walked towards nan bath earlier he handed her his phone.

'She looked astatine his telephone and connected his telephone he had written thing to nan effect of, "Don't scream, I person a knife. If you scream, I'll stab you". When she looked up, he was holding a knife,' San Diego Police Lieutenant Paul Phillips said.

Instead, nan female fought backmost and was stabbed, suffering a glancing coiled adjacent her collarbone.

She screamed large capable to aftermath up her friend and they escaped together while Tran fled nan building to his car astir midnight.

He was seen speeding astir downtown and doing doughnuts by various witnesses, and a patrol bull tried to propulsion him over.

Tran revved his engines and drove disconnected nan pier astatine speed, splashing into nan bay and sank to nan bottommost wrong 10 minutes.

San Diego Harbor Police said he went disconnected nan pier astir 12.35am and his assemblage was recovered by divers astir 2.20am.

Phillips said Tran had respective stab wounds adjacent his collarbone but he wasn't injured successful nan struggle successful nan edifice room.

At slightest 1 of nan wounds was self-inflicted and a pouch weapon was recovered successful nan car, which was yet winched retired of nan h2o astir 5.30am.

Tran's displacement ended astatine 10pm and constabulary were combing done information footage to fig retired what he did successful nan almost 2 hours earlier nan attack.

He worked astatine The Shoal for astir six months, had nary criminal history, and lived pinch his parents.

His motive for nan edifice room onslaught was nether investigation. Police are checking his fingerprints and DNA against different unsolved crimes.