A woman and her daughter were stabbed multiple times early Sunday after they tried to break up a fight at a house party in the Tacony neighborhood of Philadelphia, police say.
Family members of 17-year-old Alexis Cullinan, a junior at Masterman High School, told NBC Philadelphia that the teen and her mother Kristy Cullinan were trying to calm a crowd at a house party next door to them when both were soon covered with blood.
Kristy's husband and Alexis' father Greg Cullinan told NBC Philadelphia that someone called police to quiet down the house party next door, but once the officers left the commotion outside escalated to violence.
“I didn't even know I was stabbed, I was too concerned about my daughter,” Kristy Cullinan told NBC Philadelphia. “[They] cut me here on my head, my eye and 20 stitches down my side.”
According to Greg Cullinan, his wife and daughter weren’t the only ones stabbed. He estimated at least six or seven people were cut with box cutters on the 7000 block of Gillespie Street.
“It was like blind rage. They were slicing everyone in sight,” Greg Cullinan told NBC Philadelphia. “I think seven people got cut; one kid gashed across his face, his nose hanging off.”
Police say that the incident happened at about 1:20 a.m. Sunday and witnesses told police that the victims said they were stabbed by a known offender.
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Both Alexis and Kristy Cullinan were transported to Aria Health Torresdale for treatment.
Police have not made any arrests yet. Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call Philadelphia Police.
