Kern County Supervisor Zack Scrivner faces accusations — but no formal charges, as of Thursday — that he sexually assaulted one of his children before another stabbed him twice in an act of sibling defense at the family’s home Tuesday in Tehachapi.
At a news conference Thursday afternoon, Sheriff Donny Youngblood offered reporters a lean timeline of events: Deputies late Tuesday night responded to a psychotic, possibly suicidal Scrivner, who, amid his episode, brandished a firearm at the home and “possibly” fixed it to his head. Scrivner was taken to Kern Medical for treatment of his non-life-threatening stab wounds.
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