Prosecutors won't press charges against Todd Bridges for stabbing a tenant in the chest, concluding the former "Diff'rent Strokes" star acted in self-defense.
Bridges, 27, had been arrested over the weekend in Los Angeles for investigation of attempted murder in the stabbing of David Joseph Kitchen, 23.Bridges stabbed Kitchen with a knife after Kitchen attacked him with a sword, said a spokeswoman for the district attorney. The former actor was trying to evict Kitchen, who had rented a room in Bridges' home.
Bridges is free on bail awaiting trial on drug and weapons charges stemming from an arrest in December.
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Kitchen was hospitalized. His condition was not disclosed.