A Florida woman is accused of riding her bicycle up to a priest who was having a cup of coffee and stabbing him in the chest just minutes after flashing a knife at a McDonald’s employee — and not long after she had been released from jail for a battery conviction.
Arieana Gibbs, 22, faces charges of attempted second-degree murder, aggravated assault, and felony battery in the attack that hospitalized Trinity Parish Father Matt Marino, the rector of Trinity Parish St. Augustine.
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The attack happened on Wednesday at 8 a.m. at 48 San Marco and 1106 N. Ponce De Leon Blvd. in downtown St. Augustine , on the Pacific coast south of Jacksonville, according to the arrest report outlining the allegations. The violence started that day when the defendant was at McDonald’s, standing by the soda machines, court documents said. A McDonald’s worker went near the soda machine where the defendant was standing, the arrest report said. The defendant turned toward the employee and said, “can you help me with something,” and then grabbed their arm and pulled out a kitchen knife, according to the document.
The McDonald’s victim pulled her arm back and got away as the suspect, wearing an orange long-sleeve top, tie-dye pants and a black backpack, rode off on a black bicycle, the St. Augustine Police Department said …