A 23-year-old man was stabbed in the neck while walking with his girlfriend near Buckingham Fountain late Thursday, according to Chicago police.
The victim and his 27-year-old girlfriend were in the 500 block of South Columbus Drive around 11:27 p.m. when they became involved in a verbal dispute with a man they did not know, CPD said. The confrontation turned physical, and the unknown man stabbed the victim in the left side of his neck before fleeing north on Lake Shore Drive, police said.
Bystanders applied pressure to the man’s wound to slow the bleeding until paramedics arrived. EMS transported him to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in serious condition.
Officers were told to look for a Black man wearing a black hoodie and headphones, but no arrests have been announced as of Friday morning.
