Two men were injured in an early-morning stabbing Sunday in Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood, police said.
The incident comes amid an uptick in crime in the city’s largest entertainment district.
Pittsburgh police said they were dispatched shortly after 3 a.m. for a fight near the intersection of East Carson and South 18th streets.
One man was stabbed in the cheek, police said. First responders took him to an area hospital in stable condition.
Police said a second man was taken to the hospital for a hand injury.
Police did not name either victim. A spokeswoman Sunday declined comment.
A total of 846 crimes, including 18 aggravated assaults and one homicide, were reported to police in Pittsburgh’s South Side Flats neighborhood this year, through April 30, online records show.
At the same time last year, records show 715 crimes, including 11 aggravated assaults and no homicides, were reported in the neighborhood, which sits between the South Side Slopes and the Monongahela River.
Sex offenses and thefts also are up, year over year, in the South Side Flats, records show. The number of robberies are down. No arson incidents were reported in the four-month span of either year.