{"id":163086,"date":"2026-04-11T07:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/163086\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T07:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:31:15","slug":"man-stabbed-in-head-attacked-with-baseball-bat-in-pittsburgh-police-searching-for-2-suspects-wpxi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/163086\/","title":{"rendered":"Man stabbed in head, attacked with baseball bat in Pittsburgh; police searching for 2 suspects \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 SWAT was called after a man was stabbed in the head and attacked with a baseball bat in Pittsburgh\u2019s Perry South neighborhood Thursday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Pittsburgh Police were called to the 2100 block of Federal Street for a reported fight and stabbing around 9:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Public Safety officials said preliminary information shows two men assaulted another man with a baseball bat and stabbed him in the head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The victim took himself to a nearby EMS station, where he was evaluated by paramedics and then taken to a hospital in critical condition. He was later upgraded to stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The SWAT team was called to respond to a home in the 2100 block of Koerner Avenue, where the two suspects were believed to be. The drone and K-9 unit were also called to assist. No suspects were found inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Pittsburgh Police continue to investigate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cI saw the cops out here, SWAT team and all that. My cousin called me from across the street \u2013 that\u2019s why I looked out the door,\u201d said Millard Horne III, who lives along Federal Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Neighbors told Channel 11 they hope police find whoever is responsible and told us they all try to look out for one another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"> \u201cI just stay to myself, and we got neighbors \u2013 everybody knows everybody,\u201d said Terry Hall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 SWAT was called after a man was stabbed in the head and attacked with a baseball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[869,22398,6064,73492,73490,24361,73493,14620,73491,139,859,32014,73,75,74,7695,2579,420,860],"class_list":{"0":"post-163086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-channel_11","9":"tag-channel_eleven","10":"tag-ems","11":"tag-ems_station","12":"tag-federal_street_extension","13":"tag-k9","14":"tag-kerner_avenue","15":"tag-lawrence_alata","16":"tag-medic_4","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-ott_news","19":"tag-perry_south","20":"tag-pittsburgh","21":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","22":"tag-pittsburgh-news","23":"tag-station","24":"tag-swat","25":"tag-video","26":"tag-wpxi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}