
“That’s not how you treat a lady!” is what a woman yelled to two men in Ocean Beach before she stabbed both men on April 13, according to a police arrest warrant declaration.
Jana Nichole Halaska, 29, of Hillcrest, appeared Monday before San Diego Superior Court Judge Dwayne Moring and he delayed her preliminary hearing from May 15 and re-set it for July 29.
Halaska has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder of Gabriel Millan, and assault with a deadly weapon of Christopher Abrahamsen, both of whom were seriously injured on April 13 at 1:06 a.m.
Her attorney tried to get her bail set at $100,000 on May 2, but another judge set bail at $500,000. She remains in Las Colinas Women’s Detention Facility.
The incident took place at Bacon Street and Newport Avenue. The men were assaulted after leaving a popular restaurant at 5010 Newport Ave.
A police officer’s deposition in court records discloses that a third man was also stabbed in the hand, but that he was with Halaska at the time. So far, no charges involving that man’s injuries have been charged against Halaska.
This third man “physically intervened” and “deterred” Halaska from continuing to swing her knife at the other two victims after she seriously injured them, according to court records.
This third man showed up at UC San Diego Hospital with hand injuries, but he did not remember being stabbed. He thought he was stabbed at some bar in Ocean Beach, according to records.
The incident started with an argument between an unknown woman and Millan in an alley behind a restaurant. Millan told police the woman he argued with left, and another woman he didn’t know stabbed him several times.
Millan admitted he kicked the first woman, who then left, and the woman who stabbed him yelled, “That’s not how you treat a lady!”
Millan was stabbed in the back, shoulder, and chest, and suffered a collapsed lung. He was taken to a hospital.
Abrahamsen, 36, gave an interview with Channel 10 reporter Michael Chen after he left the hospital and said he had a collapsed lung after being stabbed near his heart. He said he has nerve damage with “pain shooting down my arm to my fingertips every day.”
Abrahamsen said the attack was unprovoked and added, “She looked like a demon. Her eyes were black.
“I have a 12-year-old daughter,” recounted Abrahamsen to the woman, and he said she stopped stabbing him at that point.
“I think God was looking out for me that day,” said Abrahamsen to Chen in the interview. “I’m grateful.”
Abrahamsen has filed a GoFundMe fundraiser to help him and Millan with medical expenses. He wrote that both of them “face a long recovery ahead with medical bills pilling up.”
As of May 13, donations from 81 people have so far reached $3,524. Their goal is $15,000.
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