Philadelphia

Stabbings in Center City, Olney Leave 2 Critically Wounded

A 61-year-old man remained in critical condition late Sunday morning after police say someone stabbed him in Center City Philadelphia's Chinatown section overnight. He was the first of two stabbing victims critically wounded in separate overnight incidents in the city.

Police responded to 12th and Arch streets about 1:20 a.m. and found the victim lying on the ground, suffering from a stab wound to his abdomen, according to a police spokeswoman. Officers took the man to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, where he remained in critical condition later Sunday.

Police said the man told officers he did not see the person who stabbed him.

No arrests have been made.

About an hour later, in an unrelated incident, another stabbing left a 20-year-old man critically wounded in Philadelphia's Olney neighborhood.

In that incident, police said the victim was at 5th and Ruscomb streets when he got into an argument with another man, who pulled a knife and plunged it into the left side of the victim's chest. The victim remained in critical condition at Albert Einstein Medical Center late Sunday morning.

Police described the alleged attacker in that incident as a man in his mid-20s about 5 feet 10, thin and with a light complexion, blue eyes, blond hair and a thin strip of facial hair on his chin and jaw. He has a tattoo on the back of his neck and a "sleeve" of tattoos on his left arm and wore a white T-shirt with blue rhinestones, light blue jeans, a white baseball cap and white sneakers at the time, police said.

Tipsters with information in the Olney stabbing should contact Northwest Detectives at 215-686-3353. Anyone with information on the Chinatown stabbing should call Central Detectives at 215-686-3093.

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