{"id":207367,"date":"2026-06-01T11:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/207367\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:19:17","slug":"pittsburgh-area-lyft-driver-stabbed-in-the-neck-during-fight-with-passenger-pennsylvania-state-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/207367\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh-area Lyft driver stabbed in the neck during fight with passenger, Pennsylvania State Police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania State Police said that a Lyft driver was stabbed in the neck late Sunday night during a fight with a passenger.<\/p>\n<p>State Police said in a release early Monday morning that Saul Baxin, 31, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault in connection with the stabbing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/content\/dam\/copapwp-pagov\/en\/psp\/documents\/pirrs\/pittsburgh-press-releases\/b_pitt_01june2026_0640.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">According to the release<\/a>, State Police troopers were called to the area near the Neville Island exit of Interstate 79 just after 11 p.m. Sunday for what they called an &#8220;assault incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>State Police said that through their investigation, they leanred that a Lyft driver had been stabbed in the right side of his neck after a fight with a passenger.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect in the stabbing, identified as Saul Baxin, 31, left the Lyft vehicle on foot towards the area of Coraopolis Road, State Police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>State Police said Baxin was hit by a passing vehicle while in the area of Coraopolis Road, where he was taken into custody by police.<\/p>\n<p>The Lyft driver who was stabbed was last said to be in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ujsportal.pacourts.us\/Report\/MdjDocketSheet?docketNumber=MJ-05243-CR-0000143-2026&amp;dnh=C2xA7jLM%2B6dWkGzKCp2j9g%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Court documents show<\/a> that Baxin is awaiting arraignment on aggravated assault, simple assault, and criminal mischief charges.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania State Police said that a Lyft driver was stabbed in the neck late Sunday night during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20212,1224,73,75,74,2794],"class_list":["post-207367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-lyft","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-stabbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207367","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=207367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}