The Whole Foods store on Stanyan and Haight Streets was briefly closed this morning after a shoplifter stabbed a security guard.

SF Gate reports that at around 8:15 this morning, a security guard was stabbed in the arm by a shopper carrying a Whole Foods shopping basket.

Writer and photographer Juan Carlos Guerrero, who was on the scene, tweeted at 9:13 that the security guard was "stabbed by (a) robber." According to Hoodline, the guard was transported to the hospital to be treated for injuries sustained during the attack.

The alleged shoplifting assailant, identified by SFPD spokesperson Officer Gordon Shyy as 35-year-old Chico resident Christopher Pittman, then took off into Golden Gate Park, where he was eventually nabbed by police.

Pittman had "a knife as well as items stolen from the store," SF Gate reports.

According to Guerrero, as of 9:13 the store was closed "while SF firefighters clean up blood." By 9:50, the store had reopened.

Shyy says that Pittman was booked into jail on suspicion of robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, resisting arrest, use of a deadly or dangerous weapon in commission of a felony, and inflicting great bodily injury during the commission of a felony.

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[SF Gate]
[Hoodline]