A 59-year-old woman was charged Tuesday with attacking two co-workers with a knife in a Ladera Ranch restaurant last month.
Yuhua Yang was charged with two counts of attempted murder with sentencing enhancements for the personal use of a deadly weapon. She pleaded not guilty and is next due in court for a pretrial hearing Jan. 9 in the Harbor Justice Center in Newport Beach.
Orange County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched about 11:45 a.m. Dec. 2 to a restaurant in the 27000 block of Antonio Parkway regarding an apparent dispute among co-workers involving a knife, sheriff’s Sgt. Michael Woodroof said.
When deputies arrived, there was a report of one victim with a bloody hand, Woodroof said.