Police searching for suspect after two stabbed — one fatally — in Salt Lake City
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake City Police investigate a stabbing on 500 North and 300 West, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018.
Salt Lake City police continued to search for a suspect who stabbed two people Wednesday night, leaving a woman dead and a man critiically injured.
According to police. they responded to a call at the Dollar Tree at 477 N. 300 West about 9:30 p.m. and found two people wounded behind a dumpster. The woman was declared dead at the scene; the man was transported to a local hospital in critical condition. Their identities have not been released; police said the victims and the suspect are all homeless.
The suspect is described as bald, Hispanic, wearing a tan jacket and wearing or carrying a blanket. No knife was recovered at the scene; the suspect is considered armed and dangerous.
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