A man was stabbed early this morning on a Metro train platform in Downtown Long Beach.<\/p>\n
The stabbing happened at about 5 a.m. on the L.A. Metro stop near the intersection of Pacific Avenue and Fifth Street, according to Long Beach police.<\/p>\n
A train operator saw the injured person lying on the platform and called 911 for help, a Metro spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The victim, a man in his 50s, was taken to a hospital for treatment of multiple stab wounds to his upper body, police said.<\/p>\n
An update on his condition was not immediately available, and there was no suspect description provided.<\/p>\n
Detectives were investigating a motive for the stabbing and the station was blocked off for the investigation.<\/p>\n
A Line trains heading south were turned back at the Anaheim station. For Metro travelers heading north, a bus was taking passengers from the Pacific station to the Anaheim station, a Metro spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was stabbed early this morning on a Metro train platform in Downtown Long Beach. The stabbing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-247920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}