{"id":300266,"date":"2026-10-05T18:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T18:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300266\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T18:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T18:44:11","slug":"erie-police-investigating-after-man-said-masked-person-stabbed-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300266\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie police investigating after man said masked person stabbed him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/c2301c6d-6c86-44e5-b9ad-df31f244939b.jpeg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"An Erie Bureau of Police cruiser is shown at city hall in Erie on July 19, 2022.\" alt=\"An Erie Bureau of Police cruiser is shown at city hall in Erie on July 19, 2022.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        An Erie Bureau of Police cruiser is shown at city hall in Erie on July 19, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>                GREG WOHLFORD\/ERIE TIMES-NEWS FI<\/p>\n<p>            USA TODAY Network, Reuters<\/p>\n<p>Erie police are investigating after a man said a masked person stabbed him in the stomach on the city&#8217;s west side early Oct. 5.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old man, whose name was not released, was being treated at UPMC Hamot following the stabbing, which was reported Oct. 5 at about 1:20 a.m. in the 600 block of West 18th Street, Erie police Deputy Chief Ken Kensill said.<\/p>\n<p>The man told police he was approached by a person wearing a mask who stabbed him in the area of West 19th or West 20th and Poplar streets, Kensill said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers went to the area but found no suspects and did not find a blood trail, Kensill said.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Tim Hahn at thahn@usatodayco.com.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Erie Times-News: Erie police investigating after man said masked person stabbed him<\/p>\n<p>Reporting by Tim Hahn, Erie Times-News \/ Erie Times-News<\/p>\n<p>USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n<p>Copyright Reuters or USA Today via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published October 5, 2026 at 9:43 AM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Erie Bureau of Police cruiser is shown at city hall in Erie on July 19, 2022. GREG&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-300266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300266","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=300266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}