Other crimes include larceny, prescription fraud, shootings, armed robbery, forgery, stabbings, and parental custody. Attacks range from stabbings and shootings to chemical bomb attacks. This has resulted in numerous shootings, stabbings and kidnappings amongst the groups. As sheriff, Pusser was credited with surviving seven stabbings and eight shootings. These efforts were executed through assaults, beatings, stabbings, and manual strangulation. In 2007, there were 190 stabbings and 188 shootings. Passersby avoid the bar because of the numerous stabbings (and deaths) that have occurred there. Police arrested Ali Umit Demir and three other men for the stabbings. There were two non-fatal stabbings and property damage, especially to motor vehicles. In 2008, Gale said that capital punishment was a solution to fatal knife stabbings. Two men were arrested the same day in connection with the stabbings. A number of Japanese news outlets ran editorials calling the stabbings a hate crime. He had been a victim of multiple stabbings. Injuries such as slashes and stabbings heal completely within a matter of hours. Two stabbings occurred at the mall in 2008.