Police are searching for a man responsible for a stabbing and robbery outside a Hell’s Kitchen deli Sunday evening.
According to the NYPD, officers responded to a 911 call at 4:33pm of a robbery at W57th Street and 10th Avenue.
When they arrived, police said that an unidentified male had stabbed a 42-year-old man in the torso with “an unknown cutting instrument”.
Officials saidl that the perpetrator then stole the victim’s cell phone and fled the scene on foot, heading northbound on 10th Avenue.
A video taken by a Citizen user shows two police cars parked in front of Roosevelt Gourmet Deli, with officers patrolling the area, before an ambulance arrived.
The victim was transported by emergency medical services to Mount Sinai St Luke’s Hospital in stable condition.
This was not the only serious incident that police responded to in Hell’s Kitchen on Sunday.
Police say a 39-year-old man sustained a gunshot wound to his leg at approximately 4:20 am at W50th Street and the West Side Highway. A man accidentally shot his accomplice while attempting a robbery at the same location in April .