44 year-old actor Shelley Malil is best known for his bit part as one of Steve Carrel’s co-workers in the movie The 40 Year-Old Virgin. He was also on those Budweiser commercials as one of the “What are you doing?” guys and gets a lot of small parts in films playing Indian characters. Malil was arrested and taken into custody yesterday for allegedly stabbing his ex girlfriend over 20 times in her home in San Marcos, CA. He is said to have found another man at her house in the backyard, and her two children were thought to be home at the time. The victim is in critical condition in the hospital.

I’m not going to include the description of what happened to the victim. There are some disturbing details of the woman’s injuries that made me feel sick. If you want to read that part, it’s at the source, but warning on that link if you read the whole story.

The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department said Shelley Malil, a resident of Sherman Oaks, was taken into custody at the Oceanside Amtrak station in connection with the attack around 6 p.m.

The sheriff’s department said the stabbing took place on Sunday just before 9 p.m. in the 1800 block of Shade Tree Drive in San Marcos. Officials said the attacker arrived at the his ex-girlfriend’s home and found her in the back yard with a man. Detectives said he grabbed a knife and began stabbing her repeatedly and then chased the victim through her home. Her male companion was also stabbed in the hand when he tried to intervene, authorities said.

A woman who lives nearby told NBC 7/39 she heard the victim screaming and that the attacker stabbed the woman as many as 20 times. The neighbor also said the victim was a mother with two children who were home at the time of the attack.

[NBC SanDiego via TMZ]

This wasn’t a superficial knife wound, this woman could have easily been killed and it sounds like it’s still touch and go for her. Our thoughts are with the victim for a full recovery and if this guy did this he needs to be put away for a long time.