A stabbing victim needed to stagger up to a downtown business last night to ask for help, but will be OK.
Emergency crews rushed to a gas station at the intersection of Nicol Street, Victoria Crescent, Terminal Avenue and Esplanade at about 11:50 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 27, after a report that a man had been stabbed.
鈥淭he individual staggered into the gas station and asked somebody to call 911,鈥� said reserve Const. Gary O鈥橞rien, Nanaimo RCMP spokesperson.
B.C. Ambulance Service paramedics transported the victim to hospital for treatment of a non-life-threatening wound, police said.
Officers did not locate any suspect or evidence. O鈥橞rien said the victim initially wasn鈥檛 forthcoming with information, but later provided a statement to RCMP, saying the suspect wasn鈥檛 someone known to him, and was an Indigenous male with long hair, 5-foot-9 or 5-foot-10 and approximately 140 pounds.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the Nanaimo RCMP鈥檚 non-emergency line at 250-754-2345 and reference file No. 29982.
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