NEW YORK, NY – An argument between two men in front of a business at 133 Eldridge Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side turned into a stabbing on Monday.
Now, police are asking the public for assistance locating the suspect captured on a nearby video surveillance camera.
Police responded to the scene at around 6 pm after receiving a 911 call regarding an attack in progress. Police learned that a 48-year-old male victim was engaged in a dispute with an unknown male prior to their arrival.
At one point, the suspect stabbed the 48-year-old victim in the chest with an unknown object.
He fled on foot northbound on Eldridge Street and then westbound on Delancey Street.
EMS transported the victim to Bellevue in critical condition.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, on Twitter @NYPDTips.