Erie police are searching for a suspect in the stabbing of another man at a westside residence Nov. 10.
Erie police said Nov. 11 that the stabbing was reported shortly after 2 p.m. Nov. 10. Officers who were called to a residence in the 1400 block of Poplar Street found a 35-year-old man sitting on a kitchen chair with three stab wounds to his upper back and an injury to his forehead, Erie police Deputy Chief Rick Lorah said.
The man told police he was at a residence in the 1800 block of Chestnut Street with four others when a man wearing a mask and a tan coat pulled out a pocket knife and stabbed him, Lorah said.
Officers spoke to a person at the Chestnut Street residence who reported hearing loud noises and seeing the victim fighting with another person before the victim was stabbed, according to Lorah. Police recovered a knife with blood on it, he said.
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Information on the condition of the stabbing victim was not available Nov. 11.
No suspect in the stabbing was in custody Nov. 11. Erie police detectives are investigating the incident.
Contact Tim Hahn at thahn@gannett.com.
This article originally appeared on Erie Times-News: Erie police searching for suspect in the reported stabbing of a man