12:55 AM: Near an alley behind the apartments at 35th SW and SW Avalon, police are looking for a stabbing suspect. The victim was described over the air as a man in his mid-30s; the attacker is described as a white man in his 50s, in black and white clothing, who reportedly ran or walked from the scene. No other details yet.
1:13 AM: The victim’s being taken to Harborview by SFD medic unit. We don’t know his condition, but police told dispatch he was stabbed “in the stomach.”
2:51 PM: More information from an SPD summary made available this afternoon:
At 0041 hours, 911 was contacted about a stabbing that occurred in the alley behind the 4400 block of 35 Av Sw, just to the west. Officers arrived to find an adult male with a single stab wound to the abdomen. They applied a chest seal and secured the scene for SFD. The male was taken to HMC via Medic One, with injuries that were said to be non-life threatening. The victim’s spouse said she witnessed the incident, in which three transients behind the building attacked her husband as they walked past the group, with one of them stabbing him in the stomach. The suspects fled the scene in an unknown direction on foot.

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