A 19-year-old man was stabbed after a fight broke out among a group of people on Hartwick Road early Friday morning, police said.
The man who was stabbed during the fight near Hartwick Towers at about 2 a.m. on Friday, suffered non-life-threatening injuries, Prince George’s County Police spokesman Henry Tippett said. The man who reportedly stabbed him was arrested at the scene.
Tippett added it is not yet known if the people involved in the fight are university students.
No crime alert followed the stabbing and Hartwick Towers residents said management didn’t notify them about the incident.
Many students who live in the building said they had not heard anything about the stabbing, and the few who had said they only knew what they heard from their friends and neighbors.
David Lin, a senior finance major, said someone told him some people got into a “scuffle” on Hartwick Road near Route 1.
“I heard a guy got stabbed in the neck,” Lin said, adding he remembered hearing sirens. “There were a lot of policemen.”
Another student, who did not want to give her name, said she called police after she witnessed part of the incident.
“We heard screaming, but everyone is always loud in this building, so we didn’t think anything of it at first,” the communication major said.
She ran to the window after hearing someone from outside scream, “I’m going to f---ing stab you!”
“We looked out the window and saw a group of people fighting, and all of a sudden we saw a kid covered in blood,” she said. “Then we called the cops.”
Several police cars arrived within a minute, she said.
Four or five people were involved in the initial fight, she added, but the “guy who seemed the most angry” is the one who stabbed the other man.
“I’m convinced they were just drunk kids,” she said, but she added that the stabbing still scared her.
“I was freaked out,” she said. “We hear people who are really violent a lot, but now that someone got stabbed ... I can’t believe that actually happened.”
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your friend definitely did not deserve to be stabbed but maybe he and his friends will think before they initiate an unprovoked physical fight next time... too many drunk guys galavant around these streets late night and think that they r invisible and that they can beat up whoever they want... this should be a lesson learned
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