An account has been set up to help the family at the Southwest Healthcare Credit Union at 16th street and Thomas. A decorated Arizona veteran back from Iraq is fighting for his life. His injuries are not from war, but allegedly at the hands of a neighbor.
Army Ranger Jason Okon was stabbed in his front yard Feb. 2.
In a news conference Tuesday, Elizabeth Okon said she saw her husband get stabbed. She said the suspect, Armando Lozano, lives down the street from them.
Okon said Lozano was standing by the couple’s front yard and she asked her husband to see if the man needed help. “The man lifted up a knife and proceeded through a metal gate that’s in my brick wall, coming onto my property,” Okon said.
“My husband had said, ‘Please don’t come into my yard,’ and the guy said something in Spanish, I don’t know what it was or what it sounded like, and he ran up to my husband within a split second and stabbed him one time and then took off down the street running.”
Okon was stabbed in the liver and is listed in stable condition at Banner Good Samaritan Hospital.
Lozano is being held on four counts of aggravated assault. Elizabeth Okon said the police investigators told her it was a hate crime because of the comments the suspect made during the arrest process.
Dont worry. I have been told by numerous high ranking officials that illegal aliens are not a problem, not dangerous, and nothing to be concerned with.
POSTED: 12:23 pm MST February 13, 2007
UPDATED: 5:38 am MST February 14, 2007
PHOENIX – A Valley soldier is fighting for his life after he was stabbed 11 days ago in his front yard.
Jason Okon is a three-year Army veteran who recently returned from Iraq, where he was awarded a Bronze Star for valor.
He planned to get a full-time job when he returned, and eventually attend Arizona State University. When he couldn’t find work, he and his wife decided to move to Wisconsin.
Okon’s wife, Elizabeth, said her husband was doing some yard work the day before they were scheduled to move to Wisconsin.
Elizabeth Okon said a man, later identified as 34-year-old Armando Martinez-Lozano, approached Okon with a knife and said something to him in Spanish. She said her husband told Martinez-Lozano to leave, and the other man stabbed Okon in the stomach and ran away.
KTAR reported that Martinez-Lozano lived within a block of the Okons’ home, near 54th Avenue and Camelback Road.
Elizabeth Okon called 911 and her husband was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital, where he remains in the intensive care unit. He is comatose and on a ventilator, but his wife said Okon is in stable condition.
Martinez-Lozano was arrested by police and jailed on charges of aggravated assault against Okon and the three officers who arrested him.
Police said Martinez-Lozano is an illegal immigrant and the Immigration and Naturalization Service has placed a hold on him.
Okon’s family and friends said they think the stabbing was a hate crime because Okon is a decorated soldier. His wife said he often wore his camouflage around town and in their yard.
“This is domestic terrorism in its rawest form,” family friend Albert Fernandez said.
Police have not labeled the stabbing a hate crime.
An account has been set up at Southwest Healthcare Credit Union to help the Okon family. Elizabeth Okon is pregnant and the Okons have two daughters, ages 2 and a-half years and 8 months old, and sold almost all of their possessions in anticipation of their move to Wisconsin. Elizabeth Okon and the children have been staying with a neighbor.
I am as annoyed and pissed as you are about how this is portrayed, but I gotta tell ya When I read your comment I got the best laugh I have had in a while.
This is terrible!!! the victim Jason Okon lives in a mostly Mexican neighborhood, with a high rate of illegals. Im sure the scum bag non-English speaking SOB is resentful of the military presence that is rounding up those hoping the border. I will keep checking to see when he comes out of the coma and try to get down and visit with him.
probably because there has been no information so far to suggest that his being muslim had anything to do with him being a DFK (dumb f’ing kid) who decided to park his ass in a mall and kill innocent people. don’t worry though - nobody pointed out the religious affiliation of the DFWK (dumb f’ing white kid) who decided to lay in wait at a police station here in NoVa and start blasting cops.
I just wish the goofy bastards would call jihad once and for all, and come running all at once, so we could get rid of them. sorry If thats considered hate.
I guess what im saying is, anyone who attacks a soldier for his purpose in war, I consider a terrorist. same goes for those who spit in the faces of the men who returned from vietnam, and the band of dipshits who attend fallen soldiers funerals and protest, F**KIN SWINE!!! :mad: :mad:
