Woman Stabbed On SF Muni Bus Blocks Away From Separate Tenderloin Stabbing
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- San Francisco police responded to two stabbings just blocks away from each other in the Tenderloin and Civic Center area that took place less than an hour apart Monday.
The first stabbing was reported at 7:30 p.m. in the 100 block of Leavenworth Street, where a woman stabbed allegedly stabbed a man in the back with a knife.
The victim, a 32-year-old man, had been arguing with the suspect when she kicked him twice in the testicles, police said.
The victim pushed the suspect, at which point she stabbed him twice. The victim was taken to a hospital but is expected to survive his injuries, police said. The woman remains at large.
The second stabbing occurred just after 8 p.m. on a bus in the area of Eighth and Market streets, police said.
The suspect, a 29-year-old man, approached a female victim and punched her in the head and then stabbed her, leaving the knife impaled in her back, police said.
The suspect fled the area on a bicycle, but was later arrested in the 300 block of Eighth Street. His name was not immediately released.
The woman was taken to a hospital for treatment but is also expected to survive her injuries, according to police.
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