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SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — The man arrested for an unprovoked stabbing attack on two elderly Asian women in San Francisco has a long history of arrests, according to a police source.

Police on Wednesday identified the man as 54-year-old San Francisco resident Patrick Thompson. A law enforcement source provided a surveillance image to KPIX 5 that was circulated among officers to find Thompson following the Tuesday attack on Market Street.

A witness snapped a photo of the same person from the back, moments after the attack at the bus stop that injured 84-year-old Chui Fong Eng and an unidentified 63-year-old Asian woman.

“All you see is just a big silver thing in his hand brass knuckle style, slowly puts it in and walks off,” said witness Eric Yung.

A woman identified as Devin also witnessed the violence.

“I saw brass knuckles at the end of it,” she said, describing the knife. “Couldn’t tell you how long, because part of it was still in her.”

According to a law enforcement source, Thompson has been arrested more than two dozen times in the last 20 years. He was placed under a psychiatric hold at least once. In 2019, he was arrested for battery.