Adam Abdul-Jabbar, the son of NBA Hall-of-Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, was arrested in June 2020 on accusations he stabbed his neighbor multiple times.
Adam has been sentenced to six months in jail for stabbing a Southern California neighbor with a hunting knife during an argument over trash cans, prosecutors said Wednesday. The 29-year-old pleaded guilty to three counts of assault with a deadly weapon and one count of carrying a dirk or dagger, with sentencing enhancements for inflicting great bodily injury.
Abdul-Jabbar accepted a plea deal from the judge. The sentence was stayed until Jan. 7 so that Abdul-Jabbar can apply for home confinement instead of incarceration, the DA’s office said. The sentence was stayed until Jan. 7 so he can apply for home confinement instead of incarceration, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors sought a seven-year jail sentence and objected to the plea offer.
“This slap on the wrist is an absolute miscarriage of justice. This man nearly bled to death in front of the emergency room doors after being stabbed so violently over and over that his skull was fractured,” District Attorney Todd Spitzer said.
“We believe the complete disregard for human life over a dispute over trashcans is so egregious it warranted prison time.”
The incident went down in June 2020 where Adam and his neighbor share a driveway. He would stab the neighbor several times after he was confronted about failing to take in trash cans for Abdul-Jabbar’s elderly roommate, officials said. One wound to the back of the head caused brain bleed, prosecutors said.
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“The 60-year-old victim suffered a fractured skull and nearly died from blood loss after collapsing outside of the emergency room,” prosecutors said last year.
“A dispute between neighbors should never escalate to violence, much less the ruthless nature of this attack,” Spitzer added in a statement at the time. “Violence of any kind will not be tolerated in Orange County and those who choose to inflict violence on others will be prosecuted.”
Adam Abdul-Jabbar once appeared on on “Celebrity Family Feud” with his famous father back in 2017:
