What's the term for this kind of insanity? Soft-on-crime doesn't quite get to it. Have progressive DAs and judges brought us to 'revolving door' criminals?
AUSTIN — Two passengers on a South Lamar bus were having a Bible discussion when vagrant Rogerio Martinez decided he'd heard enough.
Martinez stood up with a kitchen knife and stabbed one man in the back mid-conversation, then kept going, while the victim threw up his bare hands trying to defend himself.
A stranger -- a hero -- intervened and physically pinned Martinez to a seat. Martinez stabbed him in the leg anyway.
Both victims were hospitalized. One critical.
Before stepping on the bus, Martinez had four aggravated robbery charges, a family strangulation, and a felony assault reduced to a misdemeanor on his record across multiple counties. Last year he beat an HEB security guard in the forehead with her own flashlight hard enough to leave a golf ball-sized welt.
He was back on the street, riding a bus. On Friday, two people paid for it with knife stabbings.