A stabbing victim has identified Serial Shooter suspect Dale Hausner as one of two men who attacked him in a West Valley parking lot in 2006. Timothy Davenport, 36, testified this afternoon that Hausner helped distract him while another man came from behind and stabbed him repeatedly.

Davenport still has scars on his face, side and back because of the May 17, 2006 attack. “He was the one that distracted me while the other guy stabbed me,” Davenport said in court this afternoon, identified Hausner “100 percent” as the driver.

Hausner is a Mesa man on trial in Maricopa County Superior Court on suspicion of eight murders and a number of assaults, including the stabbing. Authorities believe Hausner carried out the stabbing with his brother, Jeff Hausner (pictured at right), who has also been charged in the crime but is being tried separately.

The attack was not originally thought to be part of the Hausner case, but it came to police attention after his suspected co-conspirator, Samuel Dieteman, confessed to his role in the crimes.

Top photo from Tribune file. Dale Hausner answers media questions during a press conference in August 2006 at the 4th Avenue Jail in downtown Phoenix.