Lengthy Seaside police are investigating 4 separate stabbings involving 5 victims that occurred inside a 12-hour interval this weekend, authorities mentioned.
“Presently there’s nothing to point that these incidents are associated,” mentioned Officer Eric Stachura of the Lengthy Seaside Police Division. In response, the division is deploying further sources to the neighborhood, together with patrol officers and Neighborhood Security Bike Crew officers, to interact with residents and companies.
Officers responded to the primary incident about 6:20 p.m. Saturday within the 2000 block of Pacific Coast Freeway, police mentioned in a information launch. The sufferer, an grownup male, was concerned in a bodily altercation with multiple suspect through which he was stabbed a number of occasions within the higher physique. The suspects fled the scene earlier than police arrived. The sufferer was transported to a neighborhood hospital, the place he was listed in secure situation.
The second incident occurred shortly after 2 a.m. Sunday within the 5100 block of 2nd Avenue, the place one other altercation between two grownup males ended with one stabbing the opposite within the higher physique, police mentioned. The suspect fled the scene earlier than officers arrived. The sufferer was taken to a neighborhood hospital, the place he’s listed in important however secure situation.
In a 3rd incident, officers responded to a name about 2:20 a.m. at a neighborhood hospital relating to two stabbings. Police mentioned it appeared that two feminine victims had been in an altercation within the 200 block of Pine Avenue with a 3rd lady who stabbed every of them within the higher physique. Each ladies had been taken to a hospital, the place they had been listed in secure situation. The suspect stays at massive.
The fourth incident occurred about 4:50 a.m. Sunday, when officers responded to a report of one other feminine stabbing sufferer at a neighborhood hospital, police mentioned. The sufferer had apparently been concerned in a dispute with a bunch of different ladies within the 5100 block of 2nd Avenue that escalated with one lady punching the sufferer, and one other stabbing her within the higher physique. The sufferer took herself to a neighborhood hospital, the place she was listed in secure situation. Police mentioned the stabbing was unrelated to the sooner incident on the identical block. No arrests have been made.