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Philadelphia Teen Stabs Man in Chest: Police

A teenage woman stabbed a man in the chest inside a Philadelphia apartment on Easter Sunday.

Officers captured a 19-year-old after Philadelphia Police said she stabbed a 20-year-old man in the right side of his chest inside a first floor unit along the 600 block of N 11th Street in the city’s Poplar section around 6:15 p.m.

Medics rushed the man to Hahnemann Hospital where he was listed in stable condition.

After the stabbing, police recovered a knife, and housing authority police arrested the suspect who knew her alleged victim, said investigators.

No word yet on what charges the woman could face.

This wasn't the only stabbing in Philly Sunday night, around 5:30 p.m., someone stabbed a 38-year-old man along the 2900 block of S 68th Street in Southwest Philly, said police.

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