The incident marks the third stabbing in six years for Wade.
In March of 2011, Wade stabbed 23-year-old Justin Garza in the Brentwood BART park-and-ride after an argument on the train carried into the parking lot. Garza survived the incident.
Then in August of 2013, Wade fatally stabbed 49-year-old Kann Cendejas, a homeless veteran, at a Chevron gas station in the 3200 block of Delta Fair Boulevard in Antioch.
Antioch police did not return calls for comment on this case, but Wade’s friend, Gabriel Desta, said he was released after a few days.
“He’s had many altercations over the years and it’s gotten more severe,” Desta said. “He was never like this before. He’s been very vocal ever since I met him, but lately he was getting paranoid. Unusually paranoid.”
According to Desta, Wade had been taking a lot of medication for seizures and started telling Desta that people were talking about him, even when the people in question were too far away to be heard.
“The other day at Mel’s Diner, he told a waitress that he would stab a group of black guys there, saying they were talking bad about him, but they weren’t talking about him,” Desta said.
Wade’s Facebook page outlines increasingly hostile statements and threats towards Muslims and African-Americans. On May 19, Wade posted a threatening racist statement concerning former president Barack Obama along with the gun emoji and the emoji of a man wearing a turban.
Desta said that Wade could be prejudiced at times, but described him as “more of a follower,” who became a “major Trump supporter.”
The victim in Saturday’s fatal stabbing was black.
On Monday, Oakley police chief Chris Thorsen said they do not believe the incident was racially motivated, but continue to investigate.