Woman charged with attempted murder in knife attack on Oakland police officer
A woman suspected of stabbing an Oakland police officer multiple times last week was charged with attempted murder Tuesday.
OAKLAND — A 41-year-old woman accused of stabbing an Oakland police officer multiple times last week in a parking lot was charged Tuesday with attempted murder of a police officer, authorities said.
Besides that count, which carries a life in prison sentence if she is convicted, the suspect, Margaret Goodliffe, was also charged with felony and misdemeanor counts of vandalism for using a knife to slash the tires of cars, authorities said.
Goodliffe was arrested last Thursday moments after the officer was stabbed in the neck and other parts of his body in a parking lot in the 600 block of Jefferson Street not far from police headquarters. The knife was recovered.
The officer had just completed his shift. He was hospitalized but has since been released.
One of the cars vandalized was in the lot and the other was a few blocks away, authorities said.
Court documents with more information about the attack were not immediately available Tuesday.
Authorities did confirm Goodliffe has two prior assault convictions, at least one involving a a stabbing, but no additional information about those convictions was available.
Authorities have said Goodliffe was a transient who had been living at Oakland homeless camps, including one near the Rene C. Davidson Courthouse on Fallon Street.
Goodliffe is being held without bail.
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