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| Spencer Stone, hailed as a hero after a French train terror attack, has been stabbed in Sacramento, California. | |
| He is currently in a stable condition and is being treated at a local hospital, an Air Force official confirmed to the BBC. | |
| CBS News first reported that he was "stabbed repeatedly" on a Sacramento street corner on Thursday morning. | |
| Mr Stone, 25, is one of three Americans that helped to thwart a terror attack on a French train in August. | |
| They were hailed as heroes for tackling a man who was carrying a Kalashnikov rifle, an automatic pistol with ammunition clips and a box cutter knife. | |
| The men, assisted by other passengers, threw him to the floor of the carriage, removed his guns and restrained him. | |
| Mr Stone was slashed by the attacker and later required surgery to reattach part of his hand. | |
| Mr Stone and the two others, Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler, were hailed by French President Francois Hollande and greeted as heroes upon their return to the US. | |
| They received awards from Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and met President Barack Obama at the White House. | |
| Police say the stabbing took place at 1245 on a Sacramento street corner after an argument escalated to violence. | |
| Investigators did not expect the victim to survive his wounds and initially treated the crime as a homicide. | |
| Mr Skarlatos tweeted "Everybody send prayers out to the stone family today". |