SA Police investigating after Sam Luong found stabbed at Torrens Rd, Renown Park apartment building

Friends of the man who was left bleeding profusely from a serious stab wound to the torso in Renown Park have described him as a “lovely man” with a checkered past.

Friends have revealed Sam Luong, 63, to have been the victim of a vicious knife attack in his home at Renown Park on Thursday morning.

The Advertiser can reveal that he was known to authorities after previously attempting to injure police with an axe

Emergency services were called to an apartment complex on Torrens Rd just before 8.30am where the man was found bleeding profusely from a stab wound to his torso.

Blood stains were evident through the complex including a large amount on the porch of one apartment.

A blood stain on the edge of a porch of one of the apartments at the Torrens Rd complex. Picture: Dasha Havrilenko

Mr Luong’s injuries are believed to be serious but non-life threatening. He is being treated in hospital.

The people that know Mr Luong have described him as a “lovely man” and “not deserving of this attack”.

Thi Giau Nguyen, 60, has been friends with Mr Luong for over a decade, regularly cooking food for him as “he is all alone” after coming from Vietnam.

On Thursday morning Ms Nguyen arrived at Mr Luong’s Torrens Rd apartment found him bleeding from his side after he was stabbed with a knife.

Blood splatter on the floor of the Renown Park complex. Picture: Dasha Havrilenko

A trail of blood from an apartment’s front door. Picture: Dasha Havrilenko

She said there was blood everywhere.

As Ms Nguyen called the ambulance, Mr Luong told her that two men had entered his home from the back door and stabbed him.

The Advertiser understands the two men took a bicycle to and from the scene.

Meanwhile neighbour Danny Saqipi, 60, said Mr Luong has been a long-term resident at Renown Park having lived in his home for more than 15 years.

Neighbour Danny Saqipi said Mr Luong was a “good bloke”. Picture: Dasha Havrilenko

But despite Mr Luong’s constant presence within the two storey apartment complex, he typically wasn’t close to neighbours, Mr Saqipi told The Advertiser.

“He basically kept to himself,” Mr Saqipi said. “He’s a good bloke though, he would sit in front of his home all day.

“I would sometimes say ‘hi’ to him or sit down and have a yarn but we didn’t really say much.

“But I don’t think he deserved this.”

Police have revealed their initial investigations suggest the incident was not random.

Mr Luong was known to authorities after he pleaded guilty to assaulting and hindering police in 2021 when he swung with an axe at an officer that was serving him a warrant for not appearing at Elizabeth Magistrate Court for another matter.

Mr Luong was convicted and received a six month prison sentence, which was reduced to four months and one week due to his early guilty plea.

Three months of the sentence was suspended and he released on a one year, $500 good behaviour bond.