A suspect is on the run in New York City after stabbing another man in the abdomen, fleeing in a car and crashing it, then running away on foot, authorities said.
A fight broke out in midtown Manhattan around 3:00 p.m. that ended when one man stabbed another man. The suspect then jumped in a car, drove four blocks north, crashed the vehicle into the side of a building and fled the scene.
The victim was transported to a local hospital and is expected to survive.
The two men knew each other, a spokesman for the NYPD said.
“This doesn’t look like it’s a psychopath stabbing people. It just looks like these guys knew each other, and was probably domestic in some way,” the spokesman told Fox News.
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The suspect was described in a preliminary description as a 5’7″ Black male wearing blue jeans, a black shirt with a white circle logo on the front, and black and white sneakers.
New York City has been grappling with rising crime recently.
Crime was up 22% overall in May compared to the year before, mostly driven by a 73% increase in shootings, a 46.7% increase in robberies, and a 20.5% increase in felony assaults, according to NYPD statistics.
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Now, crime is at the top of New Yorkers’ minds going into the summer months. An Ipsos poll conducted for NY1 in May found that 46% of New Yorkers think crime or violence is the biggest problem facing the city, followed by affordable housing at a distant 31% second.
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