Two taken to hospital with knife wounds after fight in Costa Mesa

Two 19-year-olds were injured in a fight that broke out in Costa Mesa’s Fairview Park late Saturday, police said.

When police arrived at 10:41 p.m., teenagers and adults were seen leaving the area of Fairview Park near Waldorf School in the 2300 block of Canyon Drive. Many of the teenagers were reportedly students at Edison and Marina high schools in Huntington Beach, police said.

Two injured students were found at the scene; one with multiple stab wounds and another with a cut on his head, police said.

Marina High School graduate John McCarty, 19, of Westminster, was stabbed several times and was taken to Western Medical Center in Santa Ana. Huntington Beach resident David Grantham, 19, a graduate of Marina High School, was taken to Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian with a cut on his head, police said.

Neither of the victims’ injuries were life-threatening.

Police do not believe the fight was gang-related, and officers did not find those who injured the men.

Anyone with information about the identity of those involved should contact Costa Mesa police detectives at (714) 754-5206.