Detective: Man suspected of stabbing Sikh trucker asked ‘so he didn’t die?’

ROCK SPRINGS—When officers arrested the man suspected of stabbing a Sikh truck driver inside a southwest Wyoming rest stop in September, he wanted to know why, according to Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Det. Stephanie Cassidy. They told Andrew Bzdak he faced an aggravated assault charge. That provoked another question, Cassidy testified Nov. 4 at Bzdak’s preliminary hearing on what’s now an attempted murder charge. Bzdak, she told the court, “answered something along the lines of ‘So he didn’t die?’” Cassidy described the circumstances of Bzdak’s arrest, as well as the stabbing that spurred it, at a Sweetwater County Circuit Court hearing. At the conclusion, Magistrate Ed Newell ruled enough evidence exists for Bzdak, himself a trucker from California, to face trial for attempted first-degree murder. The stabbing drew national headlines, in part because the driver who was attacked is a Sikh.

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