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Three Camp Pendleton Marines stabbed during fight in San Clemente parking lot

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SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (KGTV) -- Three Camp Pendleton Marines were stabbed during a fight Saturday in San Clemente, a sheriff’s official confirms.

The fight happened around 1 a.m. Saturday in a parking lot on the 200 block of El Camino Real.

The three Marines, two aged 21 and the other a 23-year-old were involved in a fight with two men and a woman.

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During the fight, one of the men pulled out a knife and stabbed all three Marines. All three of the men were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The Marines were all assigned to the 1st Battalion, 4th Marines at Camp Pendleton.

Deputies arrested 24-year-old Alexis Moreno-Aguirre on suspicion of attempted murder. He was booked into the Orange County jail.

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